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ArtBasel Hong Kong - Selma Feriani Gallery

In the installation No Land: The Water Ceremony five giant woven paper cloaks stand like ritual sentinels in the space. Residual garments of the artist’s performance, these “ritual investitures” salvage and revive an ancestral rite of gratitude to water in relation to Inca sacred places, geography and memory. Known as the “water ceremony”, messengers, mythical and historical figures dressed in ceremonial garments carry water from the sea to each archaeological centre from the Andes mountains, celebrating water as a vital element for humanity. The artist constructs the garments by intricately weaving specific cuttings from vintage atlases and cartographic documents discarded from public libraries. Through this labour-intensive technique, the material transforms from delicate pages of books into robust, even armour-like attire. The weaving’s stepped patterns also recall the sacred ruins and old scaffold textiles used in Andean culture as well as the practice of weaving as the embodiment of collective and female resilience.

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If art is a vital form of communication, how are artists learning to hold space for the complexity that defines our shared existence? Blending geographies and experiences that bridge past, present, and future, artists participating in Encounters at Art Basel Hong Kong share their perspectives on what it means to live together. Featuring artists Catalina Swinburn, Yoan Capote, Tsherin Sherpa, and Lí Wei. Moderated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director, Artspace Sydney and Encounters Curator Art Basel's Conversations is a series of live debates bringing together today's most inspiring cultural figures. The renowned program features thought leaders exchanging on the key topics shaping the world of art and culture. The talks take place from Wednesday to Saturday during the show. They are open and free to the public, no ticket to the fair is required.

Date: 11:00am, Friday, 29 March 2024
Location: Auditorium N101B, Level 1, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

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BOOTH 1D28 - Selma Feriani Gallery

Catalina Swinburn
Thameur Mejri
M'barek Bouhchichi
Nicène Kossentini
Farid Belkahia
Baya
Yann Lacroix
Pascal Hachem

VIP days: 26 and 27 March 2024
Public days: 28 to 30 March 2024
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

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Exited to share the launch of Catalina Swinburn in Spotify with the piece NO LAND 'The Water Ceremony'.

The sound piece, specially designed for the premier work to be displayed in Encounters ArtBasel Hong Kong with Selma Feriani, acts as an immersive experience inspired in a poem by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (b. c. 1535; d. c. 1615), one of the most polemic and most admired native authors of the colonial period considered a primary source of information on the pre-Columbian Andean world and on the first decades of Spanish colonization. Recorded with the performative action of weaving in the artist studio as part of the ritual to complete this 5 totems journey of this memories of shared cartographies.

En consecuencia, la obra de arte se activa por el rol de la artista como fabricante y ejecutora de la escultura. Esto podría interpretarse como una metáfora de la resistencia según la cual las narrativas entretejidas aparecen como un sustituto del silencio de las mujeres a lo largo de la historia.

“Aída”, cuyas páginas son arrancadas para hacer sarcófagos portátiles de la carta, hace que las lápidas de los caídos no identificados se conviertan en hallazgos arqueológicos de un presente obligado a ser reconocido como un vestigio de una memoria dañada.

El trabajo de Catalina se traduce en mensajes fundamentales y cuestiones universales tales como la sustentabilidad, la identidad, la igualdad de género y la globalización con énfasis en las conexiones del Sur Global a lo largo de la historia.

El reciclaje en este trabajo se lleva a cabo a través de múltiples dimensiones: contenido, forma y proceso. Después de sus presentaciones, las obras se convierten en esculturas con una historia propia y dan lugar a una amalgama de historia y memoria. Recuperar estas narraciones plasma en la artista un sentido de urgencia y a su vez un modo de resistencia.

ESTUDIO

Combinando la artesanía local con las tendencias mundiales y demostrando el modo en que las geografías seleccionadas comparten afinidades creativas universales y mutuas.

EXHIBICIONES RECIENTES

2022 OPEN BOOK

Public Space Permanent Pavillion,
Plaza Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2022 21,39 AMAKIN

Curated by Venetia Porter,
Jeddah, RK of Saudi Arabia.

2022 UNTITLED II

Selma Feriani Gallery,
Tunis, Tunisia.

2022 ARCHIVES FROM THE FUTURE

Selma Feriani Gallery & Aninat Gallery,
Cromwell Place, London, UK.

2022 CROWN LETTER

Institute Francais, Kyoto,
Japan in partnership with Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa & Baron de Lesta

2021 ARCHAIC CONTINGENCY

Selma Feriani Gallery,
Cromwell Place, London.

2018 NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT

Selma Feriani Gallery,
Tunis, Tunisia.

2016 LA FRONTERA PERFECTA

Centro Cultural Matta,
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2016 FISSURES

Selma Feriani Gallery. Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia 2013 Arqueologia Anticipada
Isabel Aninat Gallery. Santiago de Chile, Chile.

PUBLICACIONES

El trabajo de Catalina se traduce en mensajes fundamentales y cuestiones universales tales como la sustentabilidad, la identidad, la igualdad de género y la globalización con énfasis en las conexiones del Sur Global a lo largo de la historia.

Matters of Material, Christies London.

WE DEFY PARADIGMS

CATALINASWINBURNstudio convierte cualquier idea creativa en realidad. Comisionar una obra de arte es un proceso creativamente atractivo y gratificante; dándote la oportunidad de ser parte del proceso artístico que está involucrado al crear una obra de arte.