MYCOTOPIA, Solo Show at Anarch Gallery, Enclave Projects, Deptford, London
Curated by Jude Benett
RECOMMENDED BY ART CRITIC PAUL CAREY-KENT
http://paulsartworld.blogspot.co.uk
REVIEW IN ART SELECTOR
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15th June – 27th July 2013
Private View: Saturday 15th June 4-7pm
www.anarch.co.uk
Nadege Meriau is currently working on an evolving, edible and compostable installation to be installed at Anarch over the summer. Creating the conditions for mushrooms to fruit within the gallery.
For her solo show at Anarch, Nadege Meriau will present new photographic works alongside an installation made out of multiple hessian sandbags filled with shredded paper and mushroom spores.
The exhibition will investigate survival strategies on a global and personal level. It will point to the concept of resourcefulness, the ability to change and the necessity to establish physical and psychological boundaries in extreme situations. It will highlight the need for time and introspection as essential parts of the creative and biological processes.
As a response to limited financial resources and her wish to engage with waste issues she is shredding the paper herself from food packaging, newspapers, junk mail, bills and old birthday cards. This daily, repetitive activity of recycling has become an integral, unseen part of the artwork. This performative process of shredding, provokes reflection on the passage of time, food and waste cycle, and the predicament artists find themselves in sustaining their practice.
This new commission is as much about biological and creative processes - the ability to adapt and the possibility of failure - as it is about a specific outcome.
This project is made possible by the support of Anarch and the guidance of Fungi Futures, a social enterprise based in Plymouth.
RECOMMENDED BY ART CRITIC PAUL CAREY-KENT
http://paulsartworld.blogspot.co.uk
REVIEW IN ART SELECTOR
http://www.artselector.com/review/20750/…
15th June – 27th July 2013
Private View: Saturday 15th June 4-7pm
www.anarch.co.uk
Nadege Meriau is currently working on an evolving, edible and compostable installation to be installed at Anarch over the summer. Creating the conditions for mushrooms to fruit within the gallery.
For her solo show at Anarch, Nadege Meriau will present new photographic works alongside an installation made out of multiple hessian sandbags filled with shredded paper and mushroom spores.
The exhibition will investigate survival strategies on a global and personal level. It will point to the concept of resourcefulness, the ability to change and the necessity to establish physical and psychological boundaries in extreme situations. It will highlight the need for time and introspection as essential parts of the creative and biological processes.
As a response to limited financial resources and her wish to engage with waste issues she is shredding the paper herself from food packaging, newspapers, junk mail, bills and old birthday cards. This daily, repetitive activity of recycling has become an integral, unseen part of the artwork. This performative process of shredding, provokes reflection on the passage of time, food and waste cycle, and the predicament artists find themselves in sustaining their practice.
This new commission is as much about biological and creative processes - the ability to adapt and the possibility of failure - as it is about a specific outcome.
This project is made possible by the support of Anarch and the guidance of Fungi Futures, a social enterprise based in Plymouth.