Whitney Sparks
Unearthed
5. Januar - 5. Februar 2013
Whitney Sparks
Unearthed
5. Januar - 5. Februar 2013
Whitney Sparks
Unearthed
5. Januar - 2. Februar 2013
Opening: 5. Januar, 12- 14h
On Texture
"What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek."
-Annie Dillard
Unearthed
Opening 2013, to honor the Kali Yug and celebrate the Maya's new Baktun, Whitney Sparks playfully imagines a utopian coexistence between nature and humanity at last discovered, revealed, or otherwise, "Unearthed" at Die Werbefläche. Her installation combines Whitney's collage "The Beauty is in the Pain Goddess" with a surrealistic arrangement of objects trouve, Halfpenny dolls, and actual earthen matter to create a dramatic contemplation of life that we all continue to share here on Earth.
Whitney Sparks
Whitney Sparks, born in Chicago, USA, completed her BA at Yale University, moving to Zurich from Bankok, Thailand in 2011 to join the MFA program at Zurich University of the Arts. She likes to imagine herself an illustrative Scheherazade, composing ongoing fractured fairy tales in mixed media assemblage. In her work, mass culture gets transformed into a kind of visual compost. Responding to various events and places, and playing with chance, Sparks makes observations through collecting print images, cutting magazines, drawing, writing, and recording. She edits her findings to reveal another reality, where imaginary lands grow, root, and weather, and tangled beasts engage in unknown rituals. Choreographing perspectives on the female body, natural phenomena, and elements of spiritual iconography, Whitney reorganizes information over a range of media, from paper to wood to web. Her collages and films weave together myriad coincidences of society and texture, beguiling viewers to learn a quixotic cartography of the human condition. Whitney Sparks is the author and illustrator of The Riddle of the Sphinx, published by Amsel Verlag this month. Her most recent exhibition "FREE / MISSING / WANTED" was shown at ONO Gallery, Zurich.
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