(Expelled from Paradise), una mostra con opere inedite di LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gianluca Malgeri e Audra Vau ispirate all'attuale crisi globale, ma che offrono una visione alternativa del mondo.
On the occasion of the 56th Biennale di Venezia, Vita Zaman and Nicola Vassell are pleased to present Edge of Chaos (Expelled from Paradise), an exhibition with new works by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gianluca Malgeri and Audra Vau.
Edge of Chaos (Expelled from Paradise) is inspired by the artists’ response to the current global crisis, where chaos reigns. Their work investigates the parallels that exist between the oppression and subordination of women, social and economic injustice and the degradation of nature. All three artists are supporters of the alternative worldview that values the earth as sacred, recognizes humanity’s dependency on the natural world and embraces all life as valuable.
Ecofeminism points out that women have a special interconnectivity with nature that has been ignored. The alternative modes of knowing, which are oriented to the social needs as well as spirituality are not recognized by the capitalist reductionist paradigm; a paradigm that creates conceptual binaries and ideological hierarchies and allows a systematic justification of domination by one subject over another (e.g. man over woman, culture over nature, white over black).
All the artists created new bodies of work for the exhibition: LaToya Ruby Frazier has made and autobiographical video, which documents a visit to an alternative healer in a detox clinic that she made with her mother. Both of them suffer from illnesses caused by pollution in their town. The sculptures by Ginaluca Malgeri resemble models of utopian architecture and are based on his investigation of works of the Lithuanian symbolist painter and composer Mykalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis. Audra Vau’s new video and photographic series “Out of Control” explores artist’s personal relationship with a very local and post agricultural Lithuanian landscape.
LaToya
Ruby
Frazier (b.1982,
Braddock,
Penn.,
USA)
collaborates
with
her
family,
blurring
the
lines
between
self‐portraiture
and
social
documentary.
Solo
exhibitions
include A
Haunted
Capital,
Brooklyn
Museum
(2013)
and WITNESS,
Contemporary
Arts
Museum,
Houston,
Texas
(2013).
Group
exhibitions
include Busan
Biennial,
South
Korea
(2014), New
York
Art
Now,
Palazzo
dell
Esposoizioni,
Rome
(2013), Whitney
Biennial
2012,
Whitney
Museum
of
American
Art,
New
York
(2012)
and The
Generational
Triennial:
Younger
than Jesus,
New
Museum,
New
York
(2009).
Upcoming
solo
exhibition
:
Galerie
Michel
Rein,
Brussels
(2015).
Gianluca Malgeri (b.1974, Calabria, Italy) creates multifaceted work that aims at the unexpected. Using photography, drawings, sculpture, installation, video and collage, his work reflects the cities in which he lives. Politics, history and nature inform his borderless artistic language. Solo exhibitions include God Bless You, GaleriArtist, Istanbul (2012); Insha’Allah, Magazzino, Rome (2011) and Apollo and Daphne, White Rabbit, Berlin (2009). Group exhibitions include The Naturalists, curated by Peter Benson Miller, Castellucio di Pienza, Siena (2013); Sphères 4, galleria Continua Le Mulin, Paris (2011); Italiens, curated by Alessandra Pace e Marina Sorbello, Berlin (2010); When Things Cast No Shadow, Berlin Biennale, Johann Konig Gallery, Berlin (2008) and Do It, Foundazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2003).
Audra
Vau’s
(b.1970,
Vilnius,
Lithuania)
creative
practice
encompasses
video,
photography,
land
art,
sound
and
performance.
Her
work
examines
the
pliable
realms
of
perception,
emotional
intelligence
and
connectivity.
Interaction
with
her
local
surroundings
is
key
and
manifests
in
forms
as
varied
as
bucolic
photographs
and
live
action
cultivation.
Vau
has
exhibited
on
numerous
occasions
at
Contemporary
Art
Center,
Vilnius.
Recent
exhibitions
include Three
Stories at
Jonas
Mekas
Visual
Arts Center,
Vilnius
(2011)
and Home
Grown at
Christine
Koenig
Gallery,
Vienna
(2014).
Upcoming
solo
exhibition: Anime
Mund, Max
Lust
Gallery,
Vienna (April, 2015).
Press office:
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Opening: Tuesday, 5 May, 6-8pm
Casa Donati
Dorsoduro 1051, 30123 Venezia
Mon-Sun: 11am-6pm