OM.2012.084 - Seeking Kali Collective - Insidiae - Box Assemblage - 15 x 17 x 7 cm. Materials are cloth, paper, string and mirror with collage elements.
Artist Statement - 
Seeking  Kali has been   interested in exploring collage making because it  allows for 3D  expression vs 'flat' media and as a 3D art work it  invites the viewer IN  to experience the piece.
What intrigues us is that it has an assembling aspect both as (obvious) technique and as statement, i.e. bringing together pieces to make a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
This way, constructing an art piece by way of collage can be seen as a metaphor for expressing an idea by way of connecting/weaving/bringing together separate thought fragments. In a meta way it can be seen to stand for a society's challenge to connect heterogeneous forces therein.
What intrigues us is that it has an assembling aspect both as (obvious) technique and as statement, i.e. bringing together pieces to make a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
This way, constructing an art piece by way of collage can be seen as a metaphor for expressing an idea by way of connecting/weaving/bringing together separate thought fragments. In a meta way it can be seen to stand for a society's challenge to connect heterogeneous forces therein.
The  title, "Insidiae"  with is Latin for conspiracy is a a play on words in  relation to the  method of art making we do as the Seeking Kali  Collective. Our pieces  are worked out as a group as a direct refutation  of the idea of the  artist as an isolated cultural worker.
Seeking Kali is William Evertson (USA), Susan Shulman (Canada) and Ria Vanden Eynde (Belgium)



 
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