Carla
Whiteside: consensus·EXIL
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Jean-François Renaud offered the artist the opportunity to realize a large-scale in situ installation and to situate the presented works in the context of a ten-year-old practice. His understanding of and belief in the artist's creative and technical abilities resulted in the magnificent installation in the main gallery, a mappa mundi or territory conjured up by rich textures and contrasting tones. In Carla Whiteside's consensus·EXIL, language and landscape are fields of knowledge, critical spaces where bodies and texts are suspended, superimposed, translated: spaces where mind and body can in myriad ways be re-formed. Whiteside renders graphically the fable that is history. Geopolitical memory appears literally to be cut into the walls, carved into the building's structure. In her work, language is a space productively dispersed. Renaud interviews the artist on the nature of the relationships implicit in her installations while Douglas explores the connection between language and landscape. 20 $ |
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