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Artist: Adriane Little
Show: When Ready to Use Again Soak in Buttermilk
URL: www.AdrianeLittle.com
About the Show
621 Gallery
Tallahassee Florida
Dates: 6/2 - 6/30
URL: www.621gallery.com
WHEN READY TO USE AGAIN SOAK IN BUTTERMILK - investigates familial and cultural memory through a series of mediated rituals or performances. This body of work is a continuation of an investigation of motherloss and cultural rupture. This then offers a re-imagined space of the maternal through a strategy of memorial and cultural archeology. Understanding ritual as essential to provide cohesion to a community. This lasts as long as the ritual lasts. Ritual can be seen to assist us in participating in the world around us. Here ritual is functioning on a similar level; however, it is under the burden of grief and trauma, in response to the structural death of the mother and cultural rupture. It is a singular and private act that speaks to the awareness of such a transeunt space that is not easily understood. In this case it becomes a solitary act and an attempt to build a different kind of community - one that lacks familial history in a concrete way but instead is embedded within instinct or what I am calling the matrilineal ghost. The video in this work is silent, which produces a site for contemplation and memorial.
First installed at CEPA Gallery (Buffalo NY) for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Beyond/In Western New York installation in April 2005, this installation will travel to the 621 Gallery in Tallahassee Florida. Catalogue forthcoming with essay from Marianne Hirsch; Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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