OUR FAVORITE ARTISTS TO FOLLOW: Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair
byOur favorite artists from the Saatchi Art’s 2021 Other Art Fair in Brooklyn
Our favorite artists from the Saatchi Art’s 2021 Other Art Fair in Brooklyn
A short selection of our favourite artists, their galleries and their Instagram accounts. Featured artwork by Choima Ebinama With so much to see at Frieze,…
An evening of performance drawing with live improvised musical performances
woMANTRA 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…
HEARSAY:HERESY but also HER-SAY: beyond Neo-Medieval Alchemy and Christianity, towards the flourishing of the spiritual and feminist art.
The Secret Pope is a video homage to Pope Joan, considered fictional in today’s society, but a beloved story during the middle ages of a female pope that rose through the ranks of Christianity with her wit and skill. Pope Joan dressed in men’s clothes, but was discovered as a woman when she became pregnant. After she was discovered body examinations practices were put in place so that no women could rise to power in Christianity ever again. Gaze upon her as into a mirror, the Secret Pope is all of us.
Similarly 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.
“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