Catherine Chalmers, Food Chain, 2001. 33 Chromogenic prints, 20 x 30 inches each.
Feathers, food chains, and rice. Each work in this section of Feast & Famine points out: the illusion of control creates more problems than it solves. For example, Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s work reminds us of Australia’s Great Emu War (1932). The conflict between humans and that bird population was won by the feather-bed resistance. Yes, the emus won. Catherine Chalmers’s “Food Chain” shows there really are no “winners” in the circle of life – just connection & flow. Likewise, Domonique Duroseau’s “Rap On Race With Rice” prompts us to sift out the myth, and lived experience of race, by sorting black and white grains of rice in conversation. Sometimes talking is not an interruption, but absolutely necessary to help us to find our way. Otherwise, like this playlist suggests, we will keep “Going In Circles.”
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1.+ 2. Installation Photographs: Luisa Pinzon, 2019.
Dominique Duroseau, Rap on Race with Rice, 2017. Mixed media installation, dimensions vary.
3.+ 4. Installation Photographs: Luisa Pinzon, 2019.
Artworks photographed (left to right):
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Emu Flag and Cloak (Fluro Orange), 2006-2008. Nylon netting, emu feathers, glue, 47 1/4 x 55 1/8 x 23 5/8 inches.
Catherine Chalmers, Food Chain, 2001. 33 Chromogenic prints, 20 x 30 inches each.
