The three-part collective exhibition, celebrates the twenty-year anniversary of Art@Work. It showcases paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, photographs and video from female artists in the collection. Themes dealing with home, loss, love, sex, identity, innocence, morality, religion, politics, oppression, racism, destruction and death are explored in this exhibition. In Part III there are seventy-five artworks on display, including ten videos shown looped on three screens.
The title was inspired by one of Ali Prosch’s pieces in Part I Rolling in the Deep, Adele Based on Adele’s Rolling in the Deep by songwriters, Adele Lauri Blue Adkins and Paul Richard Epworth. The song’s theme of empowerment is used to highlight the tremendous talent of women artists. The ‘can do, do not underestimate me’ attitude of the song rings clear in the Mosqueras’ admiration of women artists dating from the time they began to collect in 1989. Liza and Arturo have over two thousand artworks by female artists in their collection.
The international scope of the exhibitions is attested by the representation of women artists from across the globe. Part III will boast the participation of fifty-four artists with background from twenty-one different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, French Caribbean, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Venezuela).
“Maria Fernanda Cardoso blends nature, art, science, and technology to transform unconventional materials into awe-inspiring installations, sculptures, performances and videos. Her video work “Chicken Face” invites people to experience the wonders of nature in all living animals.”
About the featured artwork:
The video depicts a parade of animal faces, a procession of anonymous identities. However, each close-up reveals the fascinating peculiarity of their faces – the chickens with their crests like genitalia, the fish that appear to laugh, the bat that looks like a cat. Under the gaze of the camera lens, these animals appear to take on human characteristics. Seductiveness intermingles with repugnance, subtle irony with satire and brutality with menace. This fusion of opposites permeates much of the artist’s work.
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