Casey Kaplan
Congratulations to Hannah Levy and Igshaan Adams for their inclusion in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
“The Milk of Dreams takes its title from a book by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) – Cecilia Alemani stated – in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination. It is a world where everyone can change, be transformed, become something or someone else. The Exhibition The Milk of Dreams takes Leonora Carrington’s otherworldly creatures, along with other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human.
This Exhibition is grounded in many conversations with artists held in the last few years. The questions that kept emerging from these dialogues seem to capture this moment in history when the very survival of the species is threatened, but also to sum up many other inquiries that pervade the sciences, arts, and myths of our time
Image (left): Igshaan Adams, Duister Omsingel (dark surrounded) (Detail), 2021, Wood, plastic, stone, glass and shell beads, polyester and nylon rope chain, and cotton twine, 88.58 x 68.9″ / 225 x175cm
Image (right): Hannah Levy, Untitled (Detail), 2021, Nickel-plated steel, silicone, 35.5 x 16 x 21″ / 90.17 × 40.64 × 53.34cm
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