Chapter 4: We once found ourselves in Toronto (AGO’s tankard 1697)
see video here: https://vimeo.com/1023020205
Chapter 3: We once found ourselves in Madrid - Museo del Prado Guido Aspertini, El rapto de las sabinas
see video here: https://vimeo.com/996272756
Esperar / Repotting / Signifier, 2023
Collaging, mixing Sabinas, coexisting, crossing generations. This video It’s about constrained movement, repetition, heritage, and translation. A still image, a series of movements doomed to be a loop.
Desesperar / Invading / Re-planter, 2023
Holding energy, playing with fire, glorifying, destroying and birthing at once. This piece touches on several ecological issues surrounding fire, the destruction of nature, the human vs. its actions. We talk here about ecofeminism, the current climate change crisis, ancient practices of “witches,” and the overall idea of knowledge transmission through the work of women.
Invadir / Las Sabinas, 2023
Digital collage, digital prints 11 x 17 inches, audio piece 00.17.19 https://on.soundcloud.com/MvFoY Las Sabinas is another way of positioning ourselves in this story, going back to the myth, thinking about who is writing the history, having a conversation with the imagery, and playing with different ways of portraying and playing with representation and repetition.
Invadir / Las Sabinas, 2023
Digital collage before printing
Sabinar / Repotting / Attendre, 2023
Cardstock, envelopes, typesetting, letterpress prints, collage, handwriting, poems (in Spanish, English and French), artist statement. A correspondence between the two Sabinas: writing, merging images, words, meaning, and languages. This piece stands as the synthesis of the concept of the entire undertaking. The poems included are reflections on what a Sabina is, across time, space, art and community.
Significar / Longing / Désespérer 2023
Clay, ink word transfers, glaze Playing with traces of humans, museum displays, and archeological archives. Mixing the present, rearranging the words, and making a new language with our hands. This piece is a mix of recorded conversations between us, the vocabulary we built together across our four languages, to find common ground in speaking of the same issues across nationalities, generations, and history.
**Replantar / Meaning / Envahir, 2023 **
Latex gloves, typesetting, letterpress printing on gloves, polyester stuffing, audio piece 00.12.09 https://on.soundcloud.com/bDGZe Mixing soil, water, and words, using our hands to shape the language, to shape the sound. The audio piece is a mix of sounds of clay working. In this work we letterpress printed our signature typesets on the gloves we used to print the typeset seen on the cards. We reference feminist identities through manual labour, the transmission of knowledge (printed and manual knowledge)
