Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 7 September 2012
JOAN HALL: Marginal Waters
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2012, from 5 to 9 pm
Dates of the exhibition: September 7 – October 13, 2012
Media Room: Cherie Sampson: At the Pole of Heaven
Public Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fascinated with the ocean for years and traveling over 25,000 miles as a skilled navigator and sailboat racer, it comes as no surprise that Hall’s latest work encompasses her passion for the environment. Through Hall’s use of Mylar and handmade paper, viewers will recognize marine debris and plastic pollution that infiltrate our oceans. Previously exploring the ocean and its relationship to the body, Hall’s work has expanded from the micro-focus of the ocean’s relationship to the individual and the body of cells we are made of to the body of global society of which we are all a part of.
Piqued by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that extends from Indonesia to the western shores of North America, Hall’s work encapsulates the deteriorating shores and waters that she has frequented. Hall both makes the viewer aware of her environmental concern and her ability to make pollution into something beautiful. Making paper and casting pins from debris collected from the beaches, the material is both familiar and alien. Inventing her own coding system through the exploration between her ideas and materials, Hall’s work creates a juxtaposition between the entrapped netting and the organic ever-varying oceans; a play between the ancient waters and their current state of ephemerality.
In the Media Room, the gallery presents a single-channel video work titled “At the Pole of Heaven” by Cherie Sampson. This video-performance made for the camera was created on Lake Mekri near Ilomantsi, Finland. The performance vignette is inspired by the classic Finnish epic poem, The Kalevala. In the first canto, the goddess Ilmatar rises from her lament in primordial waters to ‘set about her creations’, initiating the birth of earth and skies. She traverses the birch ‘world tree’, as a conduit between the worlds of the physical and celestial, a universal journey of the mythic and human alike… a means to re-member our seemingly disparate origins and place in both the “mixture of mud and water” of the earth and the “beautiful and comely stars of heaven…” (Kalevala) The three ladders allude to the tripartite symbolism that frequently appears in the ancient rune poems of Karelia, the cultural area at the border of Finland and Russia..
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2012, from 5 to 9 pm
Dates of the exhibition: September 7 – October 13, 2012
Media Room: Cherie Sampson: At the Pole of Heaven
Public Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fascinated with the ocean for years and traveling over 25,000 miles as a skilled navigator and sailboat racer, it comes as no surprise that Hall’s latest work encompasses her passion for the environment. Through Hall’s use of Mylar and handmade paper, viewers will recognize marine debris and plastic pollution that infiltrate our oceans. Previously exploring the ocean and its relationship to the body, Hall’s work has expanded from the micro-focus of the ocean’s relationship to the individual and the body of cells we are made of to the body of global society of which we are all a part of.
Piqued by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that extends from Indonesia to the western shores of North America, Hall’s work encapsulates the deteriorating shores and waters that she has frequented. Hall both makes the viewer aware of her environmental concern and her ability to make pollution into something beautiful. Making paper and casting pins from debris collected from the beaches, the material is both familiar and alien. Inventing her own coding system through the exploration between her ideas and materials, Hall’s work creates a juxtaposition between the entrapped netting and the organic ever-varying oceans; a play between the ancient waters and their current state of ephemerality.
In the Media Room, the gallery presents a single-channel video work titled “At the Pole of Heaven” by Cherie Sampson. This video-performance made for the camera was created on Lake Mekri near Ilomantsi, Finland. The performance vignette is inspired by the classic Finnish epic poem, The Kalevala. In the first canto, the goddess Ilmatar rises from her lament in primordial waters to ‘set about her creations’, initiating the birth of earth and skies. She traverses the birch ‘world tree’, as a conduit between the worlds of the physical and celestial, a universal journey of the mythic and human alike… a means to re-member our seemingly disparate origins and place in both the “mixture of mud and water” of the earth and the “beautiful and comely stars of heaven…” (Kalevala) The three ladders allude to the tripartite symbolism that frequently appears in the ancient rune poems of Karelia, the cultural area at the border of Finland and Russia..
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