Fatima Allotey
dal 29/11/2000 al 30/12/2000
Segnalato da
29/11/2000
Fatima Allotey
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
The concept for the exhibition is grounded in the idea of the self, of the physical as well as the spiritual. Fatima Allotey presents a mixed media installation which reflects her concern with the body, space and place. The autobiographical nature of the works depicts the artist as a victim, martyr, and priestess. This she achieves through the use of painting and sculptures the latter generally being referred to as Objects.
Multi-Media Installation.
The concept for the exhibition is grounded in the idea of the self, of the physical as well as the spiritual. Fatima Allotey presents a mixed media installation which reflects her concern with the body, space and place. The autobiographical nature of the works depicts the artist as a victim, martyr, and priestess. This she achieves through the use of painting and sculptures the latter generally being referred to as Objects.
The artist is influenced to a great extend by her stay in Spain and her native Accra. Allotey works on the transformation of objects to convey her concern with the degeneration of the self and to pursue issues of death, suffering and impairment as observed from her surrounding.
Her displaced images follow the touch, trace, and influence left in them by human intervention. This influence can be perceived more intensely in her work, where touch merges with chance, with the unpredictable, with the extemporary solution, with time, place and space. The works are not simply reflections of her humanness, but in their uniqueness, they are meditative and exclusively humane.
Born in Ghana, Fatima Allotey studied at the Art Academy in Barcelona. This is Allotey's first exhibition. Allotey lives and works in Accra.
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