Thoughtful, literary exhibition gathers works by 12 artists from across the globe
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Rivers, like mountains, are places of the imagination as much as they are facts of geography and political history.
After joining Norval from Zeitz MOCAA in 2017, Martin excelled at organising solo exhibitions spotlighting major African talents, among them Kenyan painter Michael Armitage and Ghanaian installation artist Ibrahim Mahama. The epic floodplain of the Congo River is visual evidence of this particular river’s geometry. Differently put, the river becomes the sea, but the sea is also the memory of a river.gathers works by 12 artists whose work is engaged in “representing a subject that is at once fixed and relentlessly in motion”, as Martin phrases it in the exhibition guide.
“These elements, which on land would be described as ‘poetic’, are vital for the sailor … to live in an environment that is as hostile as it is sublime.” The wood-and-rope structure at the centre of Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrc’s installation is a prompt to consider novel “Earth jurisprudence”, which argues for extending legal rights to natural entities such as rivers., as Potrc’s work is titled, was made in collaboration with Ray Woods, an Aboriginal elder, for the 23rd Biennale of Sydney in 2022. Earth jurisprudence has a strong foothold in Australia.
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