THE VASSEUR BALTIC ARTISTS’ AWARD 2022

Ima-Abasi Okon / Laleh Khorramian / Fernando García-Dory

9 Apr – 2 Oct 2022, BALTIC ,Contemporary Art Centre , GATEHEAD /Newcastle ,UK

more info 👉🏻 https://baltic.art/index.php/whats-on/the-vasseur-baltic-artists-award-2022

Overview for the exhibition

Fernando García-Dory
Fernando García-Dory´s work engages with the relationship between culture and nature, as manifested in multiple contexts, from landscape and the rural, to desires and expectations in relation to identity, crisis, utopia and the potential for social change. Interested in the harmonic complexity of biological forms and processes, his work addresses connections and cooperation, microorganisms, social systems, traditional art languages and collaborative agro-ecological projects and actions. Since 2009, García-Dory has developed INLAND, a collaborative platform and para-institution dedicated to agricultural, social and cultural production.

García-Dory studied Fine Arts and Rural Sociology, and is now preparing his PhD in Agro-ecology. His work has been shown at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Reina Sofia, Madrid; SFMOMA, San Francisco; amongst others. He has participated in biennials in Athens, Lisbon, Gwangju, Jeju, and in Documenta 13. He is a fellow of Council of Forms in Paris and a board member of the World Alliance of Nomadic Pastoralists. He was awarded the Creative Time’s Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.

Travelling gallery.

Absolutely beautiful handmade lamp covers. Everyday usage.

Absolutely amazing environmental sculpture.

This is my favourite artwork in the whole exhibition

A lots of textiles on the exhibition.

Its hard to say “woo hoo” once ive been on theBienalle in Venice and ive seen the best of it if comes to the textiles , material etc.

I guess its everyday clothing can be use particularly not only as an art.

INSTALATION.

THERE WAS A CHAIR AND BAG OF”LIVING BACTERIA”, OPOSITE TO PODIUM AND STAND , PLAYING MUSIC IN THE BACKROUND

Description to that work/part of the work.

“Symbolic culture of bacteria and yeast”-

yeast 👆 thats why this artwork”was a living”alive artwork, because it was”naturally growing”

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It was a pleasure BALTIC!

…till the next time!

fot.J.Zwiernik