The case of Grimes – social media cry for help
byMyth: Social media networks help us maintain our relationships and make us feel more connected. Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies: A Critical Theory of Myths” presents…
Art
WILD/ALIVE! Grace Exhibition Space – Home of the Avant-Garde
byFrom September 17 through May 2022 Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art, opened in 2006, will be unveiling and exhibiting their collection of artifacts created from past performances across the last 14 years.
Spring/Break artists to follow on Instagram
byA short selection of our favourite artists, curators, and galleries, and their Instagram accounts.
woMANTRA celebrating the Goddess at Spring/Break 2021
bywoMANTRA Traveling through the Spring/Break in a non-linear fashion and beyond Western Judeo-Christian tradition, we encounter the Goddess as represented in woMANTRA curated by…
Art Rites of Passage – Spring/Break Art Fair.
byHEARSAY:HERESY but also HER-SAY: beyond Neo-Medieval Alchemy and Christianity, towards the flourishing of the spiritual and feminist art.
The Priestess of 3rd Avenue
byWhen she received clients, she felt connected to the vast lineages of temple priestesses, light workers and sacred prostitutes who had come before her. The powerful women who assumed the daunting task of healing traumatized men through the only language they understood- sexual release.
Cosmogonic Connection
bySimilarly to indigenous, ancient and mythical explanations of the origin of the universe, the cosmogonic connection to the world present in these bodies of work is translated by an attitude of understanding the world as one entity, which needs to be nurtured and respected in all its aspects; it is translated by a view of the world that does not put the human element above nature, and finds relevance in all small things.
Elisa Valenti’s Sculptures Celebrate Luscious and Robust Bodies
by“I find the most inspiration from the Venus of Willendorf because her body resembles my own. While this once-revered symbol of beauty, fetish, and fertility no longer aligns with the prevailing standards of beauty today, the bodies that resemble it didn’t go away.“
-Elisa Valenti