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Exhibition review (extract): “Fleshold” D’Arcy Wilson
Written by Ruth Bull, Visual Artist and ARTsPLACE Artist-run Centre Committee Member
D’Arcy Wilson is a Halifax -based interdisciplinary artist. D’Arcy’s work explores the challenges we face when encountering nature and our separation from nature in the context of sustainability and conservation. Her work poses several questions related to our narcissistic tendencies to only see nature as an extension of ourselves: Do we see it as a resource that we can use? Do we see it as something we want to nurture, and how does this human nurturing translate to animals?
Most recently in 2012 D’Arcy participated in an artist in residence program in collaboration with the Ecology Action Center and the Khyber Center for the Arts for Re: Focus Sustainable Art. This residency emphasized human isolation in the wild and was comprised of onsite performances in remote locations in some of Nova Scotia’s largest wilderness areas. Series of photographs and videos documented the performances. D’Arcy has also participated in residencies at the Banff Center and the Confederation Center in Charlottetown, PEI.
The current exhibition at ARTsPLACE is called Fleshold. It was also exhibited at ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon, La Centrale, Montreal, Quebec, and Galerie sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick. This intriguing exhibition demonstrates our anthropomorphic tendencies to familiarize another species, our need to domesticate animals to bring them into our human environment. D’Arcy ‘s proposal was to visit animal rescue shelters and provide hand sewn quilts for various animals: foxes, skunks - any mammals that would most benefit from a comforting object. The exhibit documents this exchange with a video, photographs and the actual hand sewn quilts.
[email protected]
902-532-7069
Exhibition review (extract): “Fleshold” D’Arcy Wilson
Written by Ruth Bull, Visual Artist and ARTsPLACE Artist-run Centre Committee Member
D’Arcy Wilson is a Halifax -based interdisciplinary artist. D’Arcy’s work explores the challenges we face when encountering nature and our separation from nature in the context of sustainability and conservation. Her work poses several questions related to our narcissistic tendencies to only see nature as an extension of ourselves: Do we see it as a resource that we can use? Do we see it as something we want to nurture, and how does this human nurturing translate to animals?
Most recently in 2012 D’Arcy participated in an artist in residence program in collaboration with the Ecology Action Center and the Khyber Center for the Arts for Re: Focus Sustainable Art. This residency emphasized human isolation in the wild and was comprised of onsite performances in remote locations in some of Nova Scotia’s largest wilderness areas. Series of photographs and videos documented the performances. D’Arcy has also participated in residencies at the Banff Center and the Confederation Center in Charlottetown, PEI.
The current exhibition at ARTsPLACE is called Fleshold. It was also exhibited at ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon, La Centrale, Montreal, Quebec, and Galerie sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick. This intriguing exhibition demonstrates our anthropomorphic tendencies to familiarize another species, our need to domesticate animals to bring them into our human environment. D’Arcy ‘s proposal was to visit animal rescue shelters and provide hand sewn quilts for various animals: foxes, skunks - any mammals that would most benefit from a comforting object. The exhibit documents this exchange with a video, photographs and the actual hand sewn quilts.
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Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
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902-532-7069
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