Lucy Orta
dal 15/9/2009 al 7/11/2009
Segnalato da
15/9/2009
Lucy Orta
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Lucy Orta's work examines the social bonds within communities and the relationships between individuals and their environments. This exhibition brings together sculptures, videos, objects, drawings and photographs created by Orta over the last ten years for a diverse range of collaborative projects, performances, installations and social interventions held in cities around the world. Orta's work is often a critical response to some of the most sensitive areas of society, reflecting on themes such as the community and social inclusion.
Plymouth Arts Centre and Plymouth College of Art are collaborating on an exhibition and series of workshops and events with the international artist Lucy Orta. Focusing on the elements of craft and design, the gallery spaces will be dedicated to experiencing this seminal artist’s work.
Lucy Orta’s work examines the social bonds within communities and the relationships between individuals and their environments. Presented in Plymouth Arts Centre and Plymouth College of Art this exhibition brings together sculptures, videos, objects, drawings and photographs created by Orta over the last ten years for a diverse range of collaborative projects, performances, installations and social interventions held in cities around the world.
Lucy Orta draws inspiration from a variety of disciplines including fashion, architecture, design philosophy, social activism and traditional art practice. Early works in the exhibition include Refuge Wear and Body Architecture featuring portable architecture; tents that become overcoats; backpacks that transform into sleeping bags; and prototype structures – light and autonomous for emergency situations. In Nexus Architecture Orta explores the physical and social bonds between humans by creating a series of inter-connective suits sprouting detachable umbilical cords, which when linked together in public performances form a physical collective structure uniting different communities into a common chain.
Orta’s work is often a critical response to some of the most sensitive areas of society; reflecting on themes such as the community and social inclusion; dwellings and mobility; and recycling and sustainable development. Conceptual in her approach, she is also innovative and experimental; creating modular and transformable objects such as wearable shelters, survival kits, giant dinner parties and mobile kitchens that are both functional and utopian.
Professor of Art Fashion and the Environment at LCF. This post aims to extend the influence of fashion economically, socially and politically, looking at how fashion can play a central role in our health, environment and wider social context and exploring ways that these agendas can be incorporated into the mainstream of fashion education and research.. She also founded the Master in Industrial Design ‘Man and Humanity’ at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, Netherlands; a programme that stimulates socially driven and sustainable design solutions in the form of systems and products.
Lucy Orta has exhibited her work in major contemporary art museums around the world including: Hangar Biccoca Milano; Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa Venezia; Barbican Art Gallery London; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam; ICA London; Modern Art Museum Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney; as well as the Venice, Havana and Johannesburg Biennials.
This exhibition has been organised as part of two major conferences ‘ Making Futures’, reposition ideology of craft, Plymouth College of Art, ‘All Our Futures’, what's is design, Centre for Sustainability, University of Plymouth.
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