‘Rhythm of the Blue Marble’ | An international online exhibition
Emergent Art Space is pleased to present the culminating online exhibition from the ‘Bookmark’ workshop, developed and led by Tel Aviv based artist and curator Einat Moglad.
Rhythm of the Blue Marble
The Blue Marble is an image of earth taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon, and is one of the most widely disseminated images of our planet.
The astronauts in space were looking at our planet from a north east, far away, angle. They felt the urge to capture their experience in a snapshot that would later be the most referenced picture of our perception of our planet. Over time it also became a symbol of the uniqueness and fragility of our world....
'The story goes that every time nymph Cloris speaks flowers will come from her mouth... In these dark times it makes me wonder how Cloris would live, how she creates spring and how spring will look in her world. I see her as a futuristic version of ‘Spring’.' 'My final work for the workshop deals with three different layers. The first layer is the portrait of a childhood friend... The second layer is nature and its strength. My friend and I both admire the flowers that grow through the city, their strength and resilience, so I started collecting images of them to add to my artwork. The third is the idea of a self portrait, because I also see me growing and evolving in cold and adverse environments. Furthermore, in the work I had the courage to go away from the oil on canvas medium, and actually experiment with 'This artwork is a result of the visual expression of the journey Nino went through during the Bookmark Ruth: 'This artwork is built up of many layers. Each layer documets a moment in time... It affected all people on our Island from its arrival at the end of March 2020. It began with school and workplace tables left empty as we isolated in our homes, through to the many changes we have made and experienced to keep well and protect each other to this present day.' Reut: 'In creating this portrait series, I've formed a kind of ceremony, a ritual that allowed me to create... I limited the time of the preparation sketch in pencil, drew myself by looking at my camera phone in a selfie mode, and then continued to work with acrylic paints. Usually I draw only with black ink. Very seldom will I make my own self portrait and make it the theme of a creation. In this process, I dived in and dared to explore new methods and materials. I was able to develop a new unique language in color that continues the artistic style I've been developing throughout the years and is recognisable when viewers see my black and white works.' Désidératé and Subhash Maskara, "Memoriance" | video, 2020 'During the lockdown, I’ve remembered Boris Vian’s novel "L’écume des Jours"... 'During the quarantine, life and creation in lockdown made me feel a bit chained to bed, without being able to move... “Knowing you from the inside” explores with photography and writing the question about whether it's possible to know someone by looking at their body from the inside. The approach may seem a literal one, but is actually metaphorical: the possibility of knowing someone's inner being through the body. This work looks 'My displayed art work Mind Mandalas are a result of the free flow workshop. It was essentially an exercise to encourage spontaneous art without any rigidity. My art work represents structured and unstructured thoughts.' “I can do it” is one from the redefining identity series that I have been researching... 'Do Androids dream of electric sheep?” talks about the idea of human existence in the digital world... I hope viewers enjoy the film and it triggers a debate about the future of Humanity and its co-existence.' 'This work has been made during the lockdown and reflects on solitude and the need for communion with other persons.' In order to take a photo such as this, people had to invest great effort and endure the isolation of space required to take that step. During a space expedition, where every second on a spaceship is precious and thoroughly planned, the need to express and capture this image is a reflection of the meaning of art in understanding our world, our true reality.
In this exhibition, we take the viewer on a journey with the intent of capturing something similar and offer a new perspective of experiencing and understanding the world around us.
Under the burden of the global pandemic, in a time of great shifts in lifestyles, routine, isolation, detachment and general estrangement from what was previously known as “our common daily-life”, this new situation has generated a lot of pressure to take brave steps into the unknown. This was the perfect moment for a group of artists around the world to try and gather as a force for creating a new form of art.
This group operated through the methodology of the Bookmark Workshop and Residency framework. This workshop was designed as an act of healing for artists, amidst a world crisis. It was meant as a framework for provoking and accelerating a reflective process aiming to dig deeper, to a core. This process allowed the artists to send out their “rays of light” from the dark elements of daily existence. Their artworks are an offering to the formation of a new world, an alternative genesis.
This genesis is the moment of giving birth to the unknown; it is the new foundation of our world to be. It is a world that moves to a new beat, a rhythm of breaking, connecting, playing, forming and reforming and being in constant flux. There is an underlying rhythm to this changing world around us. As change is the only stability that we can truly rely on.
We stand now at a moment meant to tune in to this new rhythm and redirect us from expectations, from planning, from “knowing” the future.
As a bookmark marks a place in the book narrative, we try to mark this moment in time and space. A moment that offers us a key to acceptance of our new world, and a way to tune in to its new forms, unveiling before us.
Birth
'Spring' | Performance on video, 2020============================================================
Grow
that is a Drag Queen called Levi-Debbie Banida, who is an admirable and strong human being,
but also full of grace and beauty.
digital collage, photography and more casual ways of drawing.' ==========================================================
Stream
project, discovering the depths of herself.'
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Terra
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Horizon
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Body
to reflect on the human body, how medicine perceives it, the relationship between
human beings and nature, life and death, among other things. ======================================================================
Mind
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Swarm
I have so many memories, but a memory l will always remember is my twin daughters playing with
my first birthday baby doll. This artwork reflects on Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of gender development,
the concept of gender constancy--children’s understanding of the irreversibility of their sex. 
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Pressure
Paulius Šliaupa, 'Little Crown' | Video, 2020
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Rhythm
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The artists
Maria di Gaetano / Cambridge, UK
Born in Sicily, Maria started to draw at the age of five thanks to her artistic family members. After completing the Artistic High School Diploma, she moved to Florence, where she obtained a BA with Honours in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts. While in Florence, Maria used to write for online magazines, reviewing performances, exhibitions and new music bands. She also published some of her poems in two anthologies as she made England her home. A qualified graphic designer and teaching assistant, she is an art and languages tutor for adults and kids, as well as a freelance interpreter. Maria loves everything that is related to art, philosophy, theatre, music and aesthetics and she is working for an MA in art history, attending the Open University. She lives and works in Cambridge in the UK.
I have always been a visual artist and now I love working with acrylics on canvas or mixed media on paper which includes pastels, graphite, ink and watercolours. I do love working on digital platforms as well. My work is mostly based on portraiture and mostly female figure illustrations. I try to always put together geometrical elements and human figures, but also include natural elements and animals. I do believe that we are point, line and surface and this is why I love putting different elements together. Thanks to the exploration of expressionism in the abstract through the Bookmark workshop, I have started painting. Making my paintings in synchrony with music and what my feelings suggest I do. I am fond of the principles of the Italian "Rinascimento" and Romantic and Victorian styles, mostly in figurative art and literature, and I do love Japanese Ukiyo-e and Shunga style. I do love, mixing them into my creations even if it is not so obvious to see them explicitly.
www.mariadigaetano.com
Mónica Vilá / Bogotá, Colombia
She develops her artistic work mainly with photography and writing. Her photographs have a strong influence of literature, especially in how the quotidian things became strange to themselves (estrangement mechanism) and can be observed with renewed eyes, acquiring in this way, multiple senses. She is interested on reflecting about the relationship that humans has with its own body (Through sickness ad its different marks and traces), also with the objects, and the landscape, topics that have led her to rethink and approach themes such as memory, violence, time, among others.
Paulius Šliaupa / Vilnius, Lithuania and Ghent, Belgium
Paulius holds a BA in painting and a MFA in contemporary sculpture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, as well as a MFA in media arts from KASK, Ghent. Selected exhibitions include the solo exhibition “Dès Vu”, Meno Nisa, Vilnius (2019) and the group exhibitions “Oooh”, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium (2020), “The upper hand”, IKOB, Eupen, Belgium (2020) and “In connection”, Δωμάτιο/Domatio, Athens, Greece (2020). Šliaupa is part of the HISK post-graduate programme.
Paulius’ works explore the relationship(s) between culture and nature, the interaction of ambience and light that affects our daily lives. From video installations and experimental movies for the cinema to objectlike paintings, his oeuvre encompasses a wide range of artistic media. By accumulating the flow of painterly images, atmospheric sounds and poetic energy, the artist creates sensual narratives. Most projects consist of multiple works, grouped around specific themes, such as organic structures, rituals in nature, the flow of natural and artificial light and absurd poetic happenings.
www.vimeo.com/sliaupa
www.instagram.com/paulius_sliaupa/?hl=en
Rebecca Rippon / San Francisco, USA
Rebecca Rippon is a US artist whose work explores the intersection of nature and constructed spaces. She works primarily in printmaking and brings an experimental approach to traditions in printmaking. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and was awarded a Cadogan Contemporary Art Award from the San Francisco Foundation. Rebecca teaches printmaking at the University of California Berkeley Art Studio and in the San Francisco Art Institute’s Public Education department. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.Nature and plant life is my visual language, and I developed it as a means of interrogating our reality. Nature has no agenda other than existing and ensuring its continuity. It throws artificiality into stark relief. I am fascinated by the ways in which nature makes its way back into the structures built to discourage it, or keep it out.
In bringing nature’s small elements to the forefront, I reveal something unseen, invite a new thought process, open a new path upon the one which was already there. My work offers rich visual fields of these possibilities for contemplation.
Working in printmaking, I connect my process to nature. As my image builds in layers, it emulates nature’s interconnectedness and complexity. There are elements hidden beneath the surface layer which give shape to what can be seen. Repetition can describe movement or depth. Multiplying images mimic nature’s endless making of copies; from a small selection comes a proliferation, expanding into the available space.
https://rebeccarippon.com
Nino Khundadze / Tbilisi, Georgia
Nino Khundadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Still in the Soviet Union at the time, she witnessed its end as a child. She was totally into art from early childhood. After school, she studied at the Art Academy, finished her master’s degree in architecture and worked in several architectural studios for several years. After this, her life changed, transforming from the usual one into something totally different, full of adventures, full of stories that one might not even believe were real. Life got her back into art. There is so much she wants to tell. There is so much she wants to write in words and paint with colors, that sometimes she thinks one life is not enough. So here she is, doing her best for this moment, sharing through her art and her words.
http://www.instagram.com/artfromnino
http://www.facebook.com/ninokhundadzeart
Clara Aden / Lagos, Nigeria
Clara Aden is a passionate painter, well known for her mind-blowing pencils drawings. Born Elizabeth Omolara Adenugba, she studied painting at the Federal Technical College Yaba Lagos. She has exhibited in the US, Norway, Germany and Hungary. She is the Vice President of the Female Artists Association of Nigeria (FEAAN) and the President of the Beyond Borders Artists Association of Nigeria (BBAAN). She works in oil paint, acrylic, conte pastels, charcoal and pencil.
https://www.Instagram.com/claraaden
https://www.facebook.com/claraadenart
https://www.twitter.com/claraaden1
https://www.saatchiart.com/claraaden
Ruth Gilmour / Northern Ireland, UK
Ruth Gilmour was born in Northern Ireland and is a self-taught artist. Ruth’s contemporary and abstract work has been her focus of late. Working on a new body of work, which developed through the ‘Bookmark’ collaboration, her palette is influenced by a deep sense of nostalgia as she paints places and memories that hold a deep sense of significance. Her work is made up of many layers of mixed media which build up to create her final piece.
Recently, Ruth has begun to make her mark as she shares stories and develops her voice through her pieces in the art world. In 2020 she is exhibiting in Zurich, Switzerland and New York, US. She will be in Barcelona, Spain in 2021. Ruth has also worked on private commissions for a number of years.
www.ruthgilmour.com
www.instagram.com/ruth_gilmour
www.facebook.com/artbyruthgilmour
Carla Cristino / Lisbon and Palmela, Portugal
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, her academic path included: CESE of Art and Technology (Teacher Training) at the Superior School of Decorative Arts of the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation and Bachelor of Arts in Decorative Arts and Furniture Design at the Superior School of Decorative Arts of the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation.
She is working towards her masters degree about drawing processes at the University of Lisbon.
Now based in Palmela, Portugal, she has a fascination for the detail of the natural world. She is working with drawing, monoprint and artist books. She is using found objects and different kinds of paper as tangible links to explore texture.
https://www.instagram.com/cristino2822/
Analia Adorni / Rafaela, Argentina and Volterra, Italy
Born in Argentina, she studied at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires, moved to Europe with the Cooperation Program of the Spanish Government, and afterwards with a fellowship for arts and artisans of Tuscany Region (Italy). She is working in Tuscany in a program for artists and artisans. The concepts of her artworks are spirituality and the relationships of nature/culture, natural/artificial and nature/spirituality.
The artwork presented in this exhibition has been made during the lockdown and reflects on solitude and the need for communion with other persons.
https://www.instagram.com/analiaadorniarts/
Kim de Weijer / Netherland
Behaviors of people always intrigued me and made me wonder about the light and dark sides in the momentum and the development of personalities. What will happen to your psyche and how will you behave without knowledge of the social structures of society, as we know them? With the performances I created in this question, I’ve been accepted to the Sandberg Institute (MFA, Amsterdam), where I’ve continued to create performances and transformed my work from performance on video to live performance. With these live performances, I performed at many exhibitions, openings and performance events, like Art Pie (KunstVlaai) and the Moscow Biennale. As an artist teacher, I teach art at primary and high schools. At this moment, I’m developing education in performance art for children. Performance art education still only exists at universities and academies, and is not being taught to our younger generation.
Momentarily, I’ve been re-defining my medium to work with in art, for I feel the need to expand my performances more visually, instead of performance by itself. Therefore, I’m exploring new materials to work with. My fascination with behaviors and interactions with others are explorations into creating a new world on its own.
www.kimdeweijer.nl
Anirban Mishra, Kolkata, India
Anirban Mishra is an artist who graduated from the Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship in 2017 and finished his MFA in painting at Hyderabad Central University in 2019. His work has been included in several exhibitions nationally and internationally.
The main theme of my artistic creations is LONELINESS. In the present society, everything is surrounded by vibrance and jubilance, and everyone indulges in this apparently busy lifestyle. But actually at the end of every day every human being is somehow lonely, in spite of being amidst a busy daily schedule. This loneliness mixed with nature’s beauty is the idea of my painting. Something which is missing in nature, something which has created a decline in the society, something that is called loneliness in human life - these are the things I try to find in my creations.
Art Stoop / Maassluis, Rotterdam
I am a contemporary artist from Maassluis, a town situated in nearby Rotterdam, in Netherlands. My unusual name attracts attention as much as my art. I am out of the box. My style is mainly abstract with many colors. Inner chaos is reflected in splashes of paint on the canvas. Although I am inspired by every material I get, I am not limiting myself from making use of everything I find: wall paint, acrylic or oil paint, turpentine, wood, even concrete. I like to experiment and make something out of nothing. Lately, I am into street-art and graffiti. I have autism but I am more than that. I will show it and create my pieces of art in Maatwerk autisme. I will find my place in society.
Désidératé / Paris, France
Désidératé is a transdisciplinary artist preparing a PhD in dance, creativity and AI at the INREV laboratory of the EDESTA in Paris under the direction of Chen Chu-Yin. Recently she worked as an assistant for Henier Goebbels and his anthology of "Sound & Spaces" in Bogotá, Colombia at UNAL. Between 2016 and 2018 she collaborated with Michel Cerda as a performer and assistant director of "La Source des Saints" project (Théâtre de la Commune, T2G, Theatre Dijon Bourgogne, Theatre La Joliette, Studio Théâtre de Vitry...). Since April 2019, she coordinates the Romanian Committee of the Eurodram network. Her physical education is a mix of trainings she experienced from buto with Atsoushi Takenouchi, GaGa training with Batscheva Company, Odin Teatret's laboratory, Viewpoints, Open floor and so on. Her work focuses on dance, dramaturgy of the body, new media and notions like reality, perception and transformations.
https://cargocollective.com/silviacircu
https://www.instagram.com/ciedesiderate
Kojo Biney / Takoradi, Ghana
Isaac Kojo Biney Aggrey professionally known as KOJO BINEY holds a BA in Arts Education. He is an artist and art educator.He has employed multiple art techniques, such as painting, sculpture, design, installation and performance art. He practically engages with the environment, society, habitation and various cultures to dialogue frankly on the existence of life, raising alarm on issues across all circles, including politics, economics, education, family, society and the environment. As an environmental artist, he feels the responsibility to address issues that society tends to neglect or overlook and to inversely impact lives within the environment – sustaining it in the memory of his audience.
https://www.instagram.com/kojobineynatureart?r=nametag
https://www.instagram.com/kojobiney?r=nametag
https://www.facebook.com/kojobineynatureart/
Subhash Maskara / India
I believe in films as an expression for social awareness, open discussion and change. I strive to do thought-provoking films, which may have an impact on viewers, triggering various emotions along with the pleasure of experiencing audio-visual stories. My research interest comprises modern and contemporary changes in society, politics, human behavior and the study of mythology and spirituality within a scientific paradigm.
Filmography on IMDB: Subhash Maskara
https://www.instagram.com/subhashmaskara/
Francis Annagu / Southern Kaduna, Nigeria
Francis Annagu is a documentary photographer, poet, and researcher who lives and works in Southern Kaduna, Nigeria. He works in these arts/formats because his work explores human psychology, nature, culture, social and racial injustice, inequality, climate change, migration and workers’ rights. He's inspired by the visual artist James Barnor, because his visual works are very powerful and socially relevant. He's also inspired by exhibitions and publications, because it helps audiences to pay attention and perceive more deeply the environment that they occupy, the way through which his art works are received, and the resulting discourse and reflections that are key elements.
Francis Annagu's art-making process consists of recording still images, and telling stories through poetry. This is important to understanding his work because it involves a lot of artistic processes and engagement with the human and natural environment. He is connected to the contemporary critical dialogue of his medium through current discussions in social theory. The ideal exhibition space for his work is a gallery (physical and digital) because it is an open, physical or digital space which allows him to connect with his audience through conversations and feedback.
https://www.instagram.com/francis_annagu/
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Magdalena Zając / Krakow, Poland and Belgrade, Serbia
Magdalena Zajac is a MA Scenography and Costume Design student at The Cracow Academy of Fine Arts (partly on an international exchange in Textile and Fashion Design at The University of Ljubljana and The University of Arts Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade) and a Graphic Design graduate at The Norwid Secondary School of Fine Arts in Lublin. She is interested in sculptural installations, social movement projects and design.
One of the most important aspects of her artistic and design work is the theoretical and conceptual part, which she devotes a lot of time to. She tries to evoke emotions and move something in people, sometimes preferring negative emotions, so that people can feel uncomfortable. This allows them to stop for a moment and do some reflection.https://www.instagram.com/mdzajac/?hl=en
https://mdjzajac.wixsite.com/magdalenazajac
Stephanie Ferreira / São Paulo, Brazil and currently in Rome, Italy
Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1996, Stephanie Ferreira was raised in a very multicultural and also turbulent environment. Throughout her youth she kept moving to different cities, being presented with even more diverse realities and cultures. In 2016, she went to study Fine Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was able to refine her skills as a painter. Now living in Rome, Italy, she studies in a couture/ tailoring school, pursuing the knowledge to become an artisan and also working as an artist.
My work tends to be about people I know and memories, both are mostly linked to hurt, even if many of my portraits look light and fun. For me, as an artist, I see some pain deeply connected within. I don't believe that pain and hurt are things fully negative, because they can lead to healing. Through the healing, we grow spiritually. When I embraced this way of seeing adversity and experiences, I changed the whole way I go through life. It helps me to go against the fear of living, the fear of the world.
https://www.artstephanie.com
https://www.instagram.com/stephmrf/
Nandini Kamalakar / Bangalore, India
I am primarily a self-taught artist with experience in all mediums – water, acrylic and oil. My art journey began during my school days when I would attend regular summer art camps and weekend classes at Chitrakala Parishath, a renowned art college in Bangalore. I have taken part in several art contests at the school level, most notably the Camel art contests and the Nicholas Roerich Foundation art contest, winning prizes in both. I kept pursuing art as a hobby throughout my years as an MBA professional in the corporate world. I have taken part in group shows, in Bangalore, Hyderabad and the UK. I also have a keen interest in Mysore traditional painting.
Fitz Simmons / Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Fitz Simmons is a creator residing in Bloomington, Indiana. Their background is in brain science, language, and animal behavior. Their front ground is in writing, drawing, and making puns. Fitz likes comic books, conversations about cosmology, and confabs concerning cats. Expertise in doodling.
Jiaoyang Li / China and New York, USA
Jiaoyang Li is a Chinese poet and visual artist currently based in New York. Her literary work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books' China Channel, 3:AM, Datableedzine, Harana Poetry, Chinese News Magazine, Spittoon Magazine, Enclave Poetry, Voice and Verse poetry magazine, and others. Her interdisciplinary practices have been supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Live Arts Center, The Immigrants Artist Biennial, Performa Biennial, Artyard Center, Surface Gallery, and others. She serves as the co-founder of an interdisciplinary poetic practice journal.
www.jiaoyangli-textile.com
Reut Traum / Jerusalem, Israel
Reut Traum is a multidisciplinary artist and a graduate of the Ceramic and Glass Design Department in “Bezalel” Academy of Art and Design. Currently living and creating in Jerusalem. Traum’s works were presented at B.Y5 Gallery and Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, in Upstream Gallery, NYC, USA, and in a premier Dou exhibition at Beita Gallery, Jerusalem.
http://reuttraum.com/
https://www.instagram.com/reuttraumartist/