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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Kate Newby, L'oeil du serpent
Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
01 October —
15 December 2021
Suspended between dream and magic spell, The Serpent’s Eye offers a vision of mankind melded with the natural world. Throughout autumn, the first floor galleries feature works by 7 artists on the theme of animism and native myths. The exhibition’s title is borrowed from a collection of Japanese folk tales and serves as the doorway to a world of beliefs and rituals seen through the eyes of international artists rarely shown in France.
Spirits from Igbo mythology evoked in Chioma Ebinama’s blue-tinted drawings join the company of feminine figures dancing with lion, wolf and bear in sculptures by Kiki Smith. The same overwhelming meditative thrall of landscape so central to Aotearoa artist Kate Newby’s artistic practice of collecting, observing and composing also finds expression in Simone Fattal’s endeavour to seize fleeting shapes of clouds on the horizon. Ultimately, all these poetic perspectives are the fruit of introspection into ecology, renewed faith in ancient wisdoms and the need to find new models for continued existence on our planet.
Suspended between dream and magic spell, The Serpent’s Eye offers a vision of mankind melded with the natural world. Throughout autumn, the first floor galleries feature works by 7 artists on the theme of animism and native myths. The exhibition’s title is borrowed from a collection of Japanese folk tales and serves as the doorway to a world of beliefs and rituals seen through the eyes of international artists rarely shown in France.
Spirits from Igbo mythology evoked in Chioma Ebinama’s blue-tinted drawings join the company of feminine figures dancing with lion, wolf and bear in sculptures by Kiki Smith. The same overwhelming meditative thrall of landscape so central to Aotearoa artist Kate Newby’s artistic practice of collecting, observing and composing also finds expression in Simone Fattal’s endeavour to seize fleeting shapes of clouds on the horizon. Ultimately, all these poetic perspectives are the fruit of introspection into ecology, renewed faith in ancient wisdoms and the need to find new models for continued existence on our planet.