portal for creative expression
From September 17 through May 2022 Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art, opened in 2006, will be unveiling and exhibiting their collection of artifacts created from past performances across the last 14 years.
A short selection of our favourite artists, curators, and galleries, and their Instagram accounts.
woMANTRA Traveling through the Spring/Break in a non-linear fashion and beyond Western Judeo-Christian tradition, we encounter the Goddess as represented in woMANTRA curated by…
HEARSAY:HERESY but also HER-SAY: beyond Neo-Medieval Alchemy and Christianity, towards the flourishing of the spiritual and feminist art.
When she received clients, she felt connected to the vast lineages of temple priestesses, light workers and sacred prostitutes who had come before her. The powerful women who assumed the daunting task of healing traumatized men through the only language they understood- sexual release.
Similarly to indigenous, ancient and mythical explanations of the origin of the universe, the cosmogonic connection to the world present in these bodies of work is translated by an attitude of understanding the world as one entity, which needs to be nurtured and respected in all its aspects; it is translated by a view of the world that does not put the human element above nature, and finds relevance in all small things.
“I find the most inspiration from the Venus of Willendorf because her body resembles my own. While this once-revered symbol of beauty, fetish, and fertility no longer aligns with the prevailing standards of beauty today, the bodies that resemble it didn’t go away.“
-Elisa Valenti
Casper’s work mounts a holistic approach to the universal aspects of the natural world that confront and astonish us. She reminds us that humanity’s roots too, are in the ground, and that we are also responsible stewarding the environment for generations to come.