MAGMA
FROM STILL BODIES TO DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES
November 2020‘Magma’ revisits the violent past of both the soil and femininity, and envisions a mutual world of reemergence.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés points out:
“Over time, we have seen the feminine instinctive nature looted, driven back, and overbuilt. For long periods it has been mismanaged like the wildlife and the wildlands. (...)The spiritual lands of Wild Woman have, throughout history, been plundered or burnt, dens bulldozed, and natural cycles forced into unnatural rhythms to please others.”
Set in the ruins of a once commodified land, where nature is now slowly reclaiming its place, an inhabitant taps into the objectified history of the female figure. As she rubs herself in clay she painfully recalls the sensation of a body forcefully moulded into an empty vessel. Through a volcanic dance of rebellion she shall reclaim her fluidity and break away from the old paradigms and stiffening boundaries of the body as territory and spread a new fertile foundation of dynamic coexistence.
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This accordion publication/poster where parallel panoramas meet is a side exploration from the video piece. Drawing and exploring the parallelisms between the terrain as a body~}{~the flesh as a territory.
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Photos by Floris Meijer
Clarissa Pinkola Estés points out:
“Over time, we have seen the feminine instinctive nature looted, driven back, and overbuilt. For long periods it has been mismanaged like the wildlife and the wildlands. (...)The spiritual lands of Wild Woman have, throughout history, been plundered or burnt, dens bulldozed, and natural cycles forced into unnatural rhythms to please others.”
Set in the ruins of a once commodified land, where nature is now slowly reclaiming its place, an inhabitant taps into the objectified history of the female figure. As she rubs herself in clay she painfully recalls the sensation of a body forcefully moulded into an empty vessel. Through a volcanic dance of rebellion she shall reclaim her fluidity and break away from the old paradigms and stiffening boundaries of the body as territory and spread a new fertile foundation of dynamic coexistence.
This accordion publication/poster where parallel panoramas meet is a side exploration from the video piece. Drawing and exploring the parallelisms between the terrain as a body~}{~the flesh as a territory.
EXHIBITED AT
