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Here There and Everywhere:
Anticipating the Art for the Future Place: Part I Rural |
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Image: Maria-Luisa Marino Sojourn in White Conceived by the curator Claire Watson, Sojourn in White explores the kind of collaborative dialogue that occurs between artists at international residency programs. The project’s title was inspired by “the snowy grounds” of the artist-in-residency program Saksala ArtRadius, where the project was first conceived and where Rae and Van Den Berk initiated a series of drawings based on the Finnish winter. As Watson writes, “It was there that Rae and Van Den Berk developed new strategies in their divergent practices, drawn together by the white landscape and the unusual discovery of a white pair of Victorian underpants from the residency’s attic.” In October 2008, Rae then traveled from his home in Iran to the Cowwarr Art Space, bringing his memories of Finland’s landscape and the underwear he found there. These he gave to Marino, provoking yet another dialogue and exchange between two artists who might never had met, save for this residency. Marino, then, used the underwear to create Lands Collide, two exact replicas of the underpants, presented alongside the original pair. On one pair is an image of Finland connected by threads to another pair with an image of Cowwarr, thus, symbolizing the connection between these places.“As these artists ventured into a course of collaborative intervention,” Watson continues, “they were guided into new and challenging territory; they embarked on a sojourn in white…[resulting in] a most unusual tale of collision and place within varying landscapes across the world.”
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