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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Sarah Rose, The Normal
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
18 May —
29 August 2021
Talbot Rice Gallery presents The Normal, which has been curated in real time, and is a vivid reflection of life during the pandemic. Through artworks that express hope, grief, survival, violence and solidarity, the exhibition situates our lived experience within a global artistic dialogue. Artists are exploring ideas about pausing the train of progress, resurgent communities, an ever-increasing proximity between humans and wildlife and the asymmetrical effects of this pandemic due to socio-economic and racial inequality. All of this remains underscored by the need for a profound re-orientation towards planetary health following the loud wake-up call.
Talbot Rice Resident and Aotearoa artist Sarah Rose’s new commission for The Normal explores the re-use and re-making of plastic waste, a continuing focus in her practice, which allows her to make artistic works in-situ rather than shipping them across the globe. Rose’s working process aims to challenge accepted ideas of where artistic production takes place, at the same time as it physically ties to the broader global and ecological concerns addressed in The Normal. Rose is critical about the recycling industry and how oil and gas companies have propagated false ideas about its effectiveness to obscure their unstainable practices – whilst fascinated by its lifesaving properties, intrinsic beauty and relation to a fossilized pre-history.
Talbot Rice Gallery presents The Normal, which has been curated in real time, and is a vivid reflection of life during the pandemic. Through artworks that express hope, grief, survival, violence and solidarity, the exhibition situates our lived experience within a global artistic dialogue. Artists are exploring ideas about pausing the train of progress, resurgent communities, an ever-increasing proximity between humans and wildlife and the asymmetrical effects of this pandemic due to socio-economic and racial inequality. All of this remains underscored by the need for a profound re-orientation towards planetary health following the loud wake-up call.
Talbot Rice Resident and Aotearoa artist Sarah Rose’s new commission for The Normal explores the re-use and re-making of plastic waste, a continuing focus in her practice, which allows her to make artistic works in-situ rather than shipping them across the globe. Rose’s working process aims to challenge accepted ideas of where artistic production takes place, at the same time as it physically ties to the broader global and ecological concerns addressed in The Normal. Rose is critical about the recycling industry and how oil and gas companies have propagated false ideas about its effectiveness to obscure their unstainable practices – whilst fascinated by its lifesaving properties, intrinsic beauty and relation to a fossilized pre-history.