Nightshades
Polansky Gallery Brno14 March 2019–25 Mai 2019
Rebecca Ackroyd, Julia Colavita, Monika Grabuschnigg,
Maren Karlson, Martin Maeller, Sandra Vaka Olsen
Curated by Christina Gigliotti
Inner chaos, like those secret volcanoes which suddenly lift the neat furrows of a peacefully ploughed field, awaited behind all disorders of face, hair and costume, for a fissure through which to explode.
A Spy in the House of Love, Anaïs Nin, 1954
This exhibition is in the same breath self-destructing and reviving–piecing together what’s left. It mourns; choking on the fumes of singed plastic waste. It scuttles; away from the rubble in search of halcyon estuaries.
Nightshades are mythologized to blossom only at night. In shadows and crevices they creep and shiver, opening themselves to the thick tenebrous air.
- Christina Gigliotti
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Earth Sciences