Einat Imber "Continental Drift"
A.I.R. Gallery
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A.I.R Gallery announces Continental Drift, an installation by 2011-2012 A.I.R. Fellowship Artist Einat Imber. Einat Imber's first solo exhibition, Continental Drift, marks the 100th anniversary of Alfred Wegener’s theory that the separate continents we know today were once part of a single land mass which split and drifted apart. In Imber’s installation this geological phenomenon is re-choreographed by live tortoises.
Continental Drift features six tortoises, roaming haphazardly through a natural habitat contained within a globe-shaped structure. As in a museum diorama, a panoramic landscape is painted on the inner walls, continuing the topography of rocks, dirt and plants that cover the ground. Each tortoise carries on its back a model of one of the earth’s continents, resuming its mythical role of bearing the world atop its round shell.
The artist grew up in Israel and similarly drifted across an ocean to New York. Her personal migration has offered her coexisting perspectives of the world-geographically, culturally and politically. The tortoises’ slow movement through their microcosm generates alternative configurations of the continents. Imber reminds visitors that the world map is still changing and strips the continents of their usual geopolitical context.
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Schedule
from April 26, 2012 to May 20, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-04-26 from 18:00 to 21:00