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by Grace Partridge | Oct 15, 2020 | Uncategorized

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#antidoteloves ~ @vietikebana 💗 #antidoteloves ~ @vietikebana 💗
#antidoteloves ~ Minouk Lim’s work recalls histo #antidoteloves ~ Minouk Lim’s work recalls historic losses, ruptures, and repressed traumas. Rooted in language, and specifically the politics of expression (of what has been said and what that, in turn, has been silenced), her sculptures, videos, performances, and installations don’t replay past events -- rather, they elevate the experiences, memories, and feelings of those sidelined by the political violence of the Korean war and its ensuing process of modernization. Pictured: 'Antigone', 2015, Lim's allegorical, Frankenstein-like heroine, comprised of carefully placed social commentary on found objects. In the eponymous classical Greek tragedy, Antigone was sentenced to death for attempting to bury her brother who had been accused of treason. Returning to South Korea after a decade abroad, the artist developed a newfound interest in her country’s past and present. This work is then a reflection on the division of the Korean Peninsula, the rise of social media, and the impact popular media has on memory. Lim also witnessed the social marginalization and disparity resulting from the country’s rapid democratization and industrialization and as such, in her installations, employs common media devices and a hodgepodge of disused materials to underscore the contrast between the worship bestowed on the technologies that are in vogue and the disposability of technologies from yesteryears.
#antidoteloves ~ Propelled by precious memories of #antidoteloves ~ Propelled by precious memories of loved ones lost, Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto creates in order to preserve and cherish those sacred remembrances too often forgotten with time, and is best known for his painstakingly crafted salt installations which he often shapes into labyrinthine patterns. Pictured: documentation from his 2021 major solo exhibition at Setouchi City Museum of Art and the title piece ‘Sakura Shibefuru’ — wherein Yamamoto crafted over 100,000 fallen cherry blossom petals out of salt.
#antidoteloves ~ Zhang Huan’s 1995 performance p #antidoteloves ~ Zhang Huan’s 1995 performance piece “To Add One Metre To An Anonymous Mountain.” To Add One Meter was inspired by an old saying, 'Beyond the mountain, there are more mountains'. Huan explained at the time. "It is about humility. Climb this mountain and you will find an even bigger mountain in front of you. It's about changing the natural state of things, about the idea of possibilities.”
#antidoteloves ~ New York–based artist and poet #antidoteloves ~ New York–based artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña has just been selected for Tate Modern’s annual Turbine Hall Commission, where an artist presents a large-scale new work in the main entranceway to the London museum. The site-specific work will open in October and run through April 2023. An acclaimed poet who has authored over 15 collections of poetry, Vicuña is known in the art world for a practice that spans painting, sculpture, and performance and deals with themes of the precarity of life, human fragility, ecology and environmentalism, and social justice, typically showing how all of them are intimately connected and interwoven with each other. Her best-known sculptures are her “Quipu” series, large-scale hanging installations in brilliant colours that take their name from and are connected to the ancient Andean method of communication via knotting colored fabric. Vicuña’s work often associates the quipu with the gendered female body, as seen in the work pictured, 'Quipu Menstrual', recently shown at the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Originally conceived as a prayer for the glaciers destroyed by mining, the installation parallels such a potent consequence with the power of menstruation and the vivacity of the female body as a metaphoric resistance to greed, violence and humankind’s intervention in nature. @tate @ceciliavicuna ❤️
Congratulations to @kellygellatly and Bronwyn John Congratulations to @kellygellatly and Bronwyn Johnson on the release of Art + Climate = Change II: An illustrated collection of artworks and essays that shine a light on how art can imagine a sustainable future and call for action on climate change— and thank you for featuring @kawitavv on the cover. Art + Climate = Change II presents the work of Australian and international artists across a broad range of exhibitions, performances and events from Climate's Art + Climate = Change 2019 festival. Essays on the climate emergency by artists, curators and arts writers help us imagine a world where we protect and care for the earth, from the river systems, oceans and lands to the air we breathe. In a world vastly changed by the impact of a global pandemic, these socially engaged artists and writers demand immediate and effective action on the climate crisis.
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