Janine Antoni “From the Vow Made”
Luhring Augustine Gallery
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From the Vow Made is a solo exhibition by Janine Antoni presented at Luhring Augustine. The show includes a collection of seven sculptural works and a video collaboration with choreographer, Stephen Petronio.
For the past seven years, Antoni has turned to dance and movement for her inspiration. She has engaged in several somatic movement practices to further her exploration into what it means to live from an embodied place. These new works emerge from her somatic revelations and her study of milagros, sculptural votive offerings used in latin cultures. Ranging from body parts to domestic objects, milagros are often hung in churches as symbols of things in life requiring prayer, healing and protection. Antoni’s milagros are prayers for embodiment.
In unusual meetings, Antoni grafts the inside of the body to the outside of the body to the environment of the body. Through these marriages, psychological space turns physical. These artworks depict an impossible touch made possible. The translucent objects are created with a purposeful erasure of detail, a memory half remembered.
Moving from the dusty and ghostly world of the milagros, to a sensual and visceral womb, Antoni and Petronio present their video installation, Honey Baby. Inspired by motion in utero, the video captures a folding and tumbling body suspended in a honey filled environment.
Honey Baby is one of many collaborations between Antoni and Petronio. Presently, Antoni, Petronio, choreographer Anna Halprin, and scholar Adrian Heathfield are creating a new, collaborative body of work through the Artist-in-Residence Program of The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) in Philadelphia. This project, which received major support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, will premiere at FWM in 2016.
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Schedule
from March 21, 2015 to April 25, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-20 from 18:00 to 20:00