Το Ίδρυμα ΔΕΣΤΕ θα παρουσιάσει στην Ύδρα στο
εκθεσιακό χώρο των Σφαγείων από τις 20 Ιουνίου έως τις 30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
την έκθεση του Kara Walker με τίτλο Figa".
Η Figa είναι ένα γλυπτό κατασκευασμένο από
ζάχαρη από την καλλιτέχνιδα Kara Walker και
απεικονίζει την αριστερή παλάμη μιας Σφίγγας.
Η έκθεση του Ιδρύματος ΔΕΣΤΕ θα είναι ανοιχτή
στο χώρο των Σφαγείων στην Ύδρα από Δευτέρα – Κυριακή 11:00 – 13:00
& 19:00 – 22:00. Τρίτη κλειστά.
KARA WALKER – FIGA
Every summer since 2009, DESTE has invited an
artist or group of artists to develop an exhibition in the Foundation’s Project
Space, a former slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra. This year, DESTE’s
Project Space will feature a site-specific exhibition by Kara Walker, conceived
in a dialogic relationship with both the original elements of this unique
exhibition space and with the landscape which surrounds it.
The project will transport Figa, the
left hand of the sphinx-like monument of the A Subtlety installation
made with polystyrene and sugar, from its “new world” location at the Domino
Sugar Factory in New York to Greece, the birthplace of Western civilization.
Configured into a fist with thumb thrust
between the index and middle fingers (known as the “fig sign”), the Figa has
multiple meanings across culture and history, from Ancient Greece and Rome into
the modern era. While it is generally thought of as very rude sign, it also has
magical properties as an emblem of fertility and protection against the evil
eye.
In its new location, the sculpture’s
transformation from art object to holy relic will be completed by further
applying copious amounts of sugar to its surface in a collective act of
“sweetening” the loss of home, country, ideology, or faith that is our global
zeitgeist. Appealing to the condition of slaves, migrants, refugees, outcasts,
and marginalized peoples Figa, like A Subtlety before her, draws
on the pilgrim spirit in all of us that seeks spiritual and material
fulfillment at the end of a catastrophic journey. The exhibition will be on view at the
DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra between June 20 and
September 30, 2017.
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