We Are Connected - Artist, Patricia Piccinini
It has been quite a long time since I’ve gotten to visit an art museum! Thankfully, museums and galleries are starting to reopen!
My wife and I visited Singapore this past a few weeks ago, and we headed over to the ArtScience Museum in Marina Bay.
Before I write about the exhibit, I have to say that this museum, along with so many other buildings in Singapore is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful! The architecture, design, layout, colors —- everything is top notch.
Wow, Singapore is so impressive—-I’ll probably do another blog about the Gardens By the Bay!
Ok back to the show: We Are Connected:
Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist (born in Sierra Leone). Check out her website here. Here is a little bit about her, taken directly from her site here:
Her work encompasses sculpture, photography, video and drawing and her practice examines the increasingly nebulous boundary between the artificial and the natural as it appears in contemporary culture and ideas. Her surreal drawings, hybrid animals and vehicular creatures question the way that contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human and wonders at our relationships with – and responsibilities towards – that which we create. While ethics are central, her approach is ambiguous and questioning rather than moralistic and didactic.
“My practice is focused on bodies and relationships; the relationships between people and other creatures, between people and our bodies, between creatures and the environment, between the artificial and the natural. I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations. Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology. My work aims to shift the way that people look at the world around them and question their assumptions about the relationships they have with the world.”
Check out Patricia on Instagram here
In the first room, is basically a self portrait of the artist holding an odd and eerie creature that has a shoe print for a back. I listened to the audio of Patricia describing the piece and it was fascinating. The evolutionary fusion of human-made objects into human bodies…
Real creepy, dark stuff
I LOVE IT
Meanwhile, the back wall features videos of gross looking fleshy plant-like organisms that are constantly growing and morphing…
This gallery is laid out stunningly…
The creatures in this next room are sick! Especially against the hot magenta backdrop!
ALL My senses are peaking at this point…
Ok this is by far and away my favorite piece. Largely because of its largeness, life-like size.
But also the attention to detail and realism is jaw dropping.
This room is straight up horror film stuff and surely causes nightmares for kids under 13!
The Comforter
This may be my second favorite piece —- I wish I got a close up of this creature she is holding:
I found a great close up angle online at The Hosfelt Gallery
Back to my photos—-this one is so creepy…
Another merging of artificial and natural body parts…although looks kinda like an armadillo back…?
Third favorite piece here:
I didn’t get a close up of this kid, but i love how he is dressed like he’s in the 80s! Kinda reminds me of that film, was it RatBoy?
This is the entrance to the exhibit, and what a powerful first impression!
I should have gotten a close up of this…
This exhibit was so incredibly inspiring!
I need to make more of my own art.
I need to go to more museums and galleries.
More stories coming soon…