I'll be there early tomorrow
You are invited to join us on the opening night Wednesday 15 February 2012 at 19h30.
15 Feb – 10 Mar 2012
Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection
Something like now
The work in this exhibition is intended as a kind of letter to the artist’s children when they are the age she is now (they are now respectively 2 and about to be born) to give them an idea of the present in general and their parents’ present in particular. Photographs from places they’ve been and cellphone shots of family and friends are painted in ink on paper, some in black and white, some in vivid tones. Paintings of critically endangered animals are accompanied by stories about the mundane (not unlike Facebook status updates), questioning our attitude towards mass culture and loss, and environmental concern is visualised in terms of caring for our children. Phrases and bits of conversations are used in the works to give them an idea of what our beliefs, fears, hopes and language were like. Faux info charts, maps and graphs lends (faux) authority, objectivity and credibility to this very subjective project.
Medium: Collage, watercolour, acrylic and ink on paper.
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