15H x 250W x 120D cm
Through a seemingly haphazard layering of glass and porcelain, Dérive is part of a larger installation series that address borders and displacement. Sheets of glass and porcelain, two transformational materials of alchemy, are stacked loosely in the shape of melting glaciers that places humans, animals, and nature in the same ecosystem. Migrations of one population into another and the subsequent displacement is emphasized in sharp, jagged edges of the transparent glass—phantasmagoric dreams of a distant place—the migration of not simply physical bodies but also that of political opinions and thoughts. Rigid yet fragile, porcelain and glass highlight that differences in language and habits also can form layers of invisible walls and barriers that are not initially obvious.
Shen Yuan studied Chinese painting at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts as the first group of students admitted after the Cultural Revolution. Upon graduating in 1982, Shen participated in experimental art in Xiamen and exhibited the piece Water Bed in the controversial China/Avant Garde exhibition in Beijing 1989. Moving in 1990 to Paris with her partner, the artist Huang Yang Ping, Shen largely produced installation works that lament the melancholy of exile and consider themes of migration, language, and identity in contexts of cultural schism. She simultaneously denounces the system of her education in China and reflects on the invisible cultural and political barriers she faces in Paris through the exploration of juxtaposing natural and man-made materials. Specifically, she sees the role of art as a process that transforms inert material into something living that resonates in the viewer.
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Through a semi-fictional approach, Extrastellar Evaluations envisions a version of history in which alien inhabitants, the Lemurians, lived among humans under the guise of various renowned conceptual and minimal artists in the 1960s (Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, and James Turrell to name a few)...
Photographer Endures Icy Temps to Photograph Arctic Animals Home / Photography / Wildlife Photography Photographer Endures Icy Temperatures to Photograph Beautiful Arctic Animals By Jessica Stewart on February 7, 2024 Photographer Konsta Punkka was just a teenager when he transformed his passion into a full-time career...
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Lara uses things readily at hand to create objects and situations that interrogate the processes of art and the spectrum of roles that art and artists play in society...
They/Them by Juan Obando is a video essay and deepfake that uses Adobe Stock clips, maintaining their branded watermark, but animating the scenes underneath with a narrative of self-critical awareness...
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In Ante la imagen (Before the Image, 2009) Muñoz continues to explore the power of a photograph to live up to the memory of a specific person...
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