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ANTIDOTE

THE EARTH ISSUE

by Grace Partridge | May 23, 2017 | ANTHROPOCENE

THE EARTH ISSUE

IMAGE CREDIT: ZAN WIMBERLEY

 

Our friends at the Earth Issue featured our latest exhibition Anthropocene. Check it out here.

Instagram post 2217995294079430171_4257437557 antidoteloves ~ Pushpamala N and 'The Body Politic' series. Showing at @naturemorte_delhi in early 2019, the works on display compromised of photographs, videos and sculptures, with most resulting from the artist’s chosen practice of “photo performance,” in which previously existing images are painstakingly re-created for the camera, with the artist herself as the protagonist in these elaborate tableaux, chosen for their densely layered iconographies. In Western political thought, Body Politic is an ancient metaphor by which a state, society or religion and its institutions are conceived of as a biological (usually human) entity. The first recorded instance of the Body Politic metaphor appears in the Rigveda (c. 1500 BCE), the oldest of the sacred books of Hinduism. There, the South Asian caste system is explained by comparing the priesthood to the mouth, soldiers to the arms, shepherds to the thighs, and peasants to the feet of humankind. This exhibition is Pushpamala’s critical investigation into the images of itself on which the nation-state becomes fixated, how notions of the centre and the margins, power and control, ideas of purity, and the concept of plurality are manifested and circulated in visual symbols and language. Pictured: (Install image) Pushpamala N, 'Bharat Mata' (After 1905 painting by A.N Tagore), Archival inkjet print.
Instagram post 2216690313019543634_4257437557 Grace Partridge, The Founder and Artistic Director of @weareantidote was selected as a Tastemaker in the upcoming @artcollectormagazine ‘50 things Collectors should know’ Edition, in stores next week! Here’s a preview from one of the questions asked... ✨
Instagram post 2214362063744313391_4257437557 #antidoteloves ~ Nigerian visual artist @alexistsegba explores—and often refutes—the stereotypical assumptions people on the continent have about gender. Working through the lens of Afrofuturism, Tsegba works to show “the complexity of the relationship between our culture and how we use technology”. Her surrealist portraits often feature mystical landscapes, documenting modern day Africans in jarring settings, reimagining the continent’s future and past. Words via @industrieafrica ✨
Instagram post 2214357400273892800_4257437557 #antidoteloves ~ This dystopian vision, derived from a drawing by Austrian artist and architect Max Peintner, is the brainchild of Basel-based art collector and curator Klaus Littmann. Titled “For Forest: The Unending Attraction of Nature,” the ambitious project saw Wörthersee Stadium, Austria, transformed into a native central European forest replete with 299 transplanted trees. The work closely mirrored Peintner’s “The Unending Attraction of Nature,” a pencil drawing that provides both the inspiration for and the title of Littmann’s installation. Sketched between 1970 and 1971, the image juxtaposes a tree-filled stadium with a “factory smoke-ridden industrial” skyline. Thousands of onlookers gaze upon the out-of-place forest, treating it with the same reverence a die-hard soccer fan might afford to their favorite team. 🌲
Instagram post 2209191866486044557_4257437557 #antidoteloves Motoi Yamamoto ~ ‘Floating garden’ comprises a circular form filled with a lacework of carefully-placed grains of salt. In its realization, the artist worked by moving a container of salt in a particular rhythm; a subtle movement which created tiny cells that mimic bubble-like patterns. Each of these thin salt ribbons symbolizes pieces of his own memories and fragments of time - with each of the swirling, hurricane-like patterns representing the motifs of life and death, resurrection, rebirth and vitality. The ephemeral artwork was realized in 45 hours over the course of five days, at the medieval French castle Aigues-Mortes.
Instagram post 2207086275932326926_4257437557 Start 2020 with a new and valuable addition to your collection 💃🏽 We are thrilled to have some of the final edition prints and videos from Kawita Vatanajyankur’s ongoing series ‘Performing Textiles’. If you are interested in acquiring a work, visit our website or email grace@antidote.org.au for more details 🥰✨ pictured: Dye, 2018. (Detail)

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