Content by: Marine Ky – marineky.org
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"Epidermis" / "L’épiderme de la Terre" is a visual expression of the impermanence of life. Produced in an outdoor setting, at Montguers, on a mountaintop in Southern France or in Fontaine-Daniel, a village’s former school courtyard, in La Mayenne, this series of installation is made of natural dyes, meticulously applied, dipped or pour onto thick and sometimes colourful canvases. The evanescent quality of colours and smells, fainting over times, the cracking of the earth spread in regular motions onto the canvas to form a circle shape bear similarities with how life and death fluctuates in cycles, from a growth of a stem of lavender to our feeling of love. The transient nature of the smallest phenomena such as a subatomic particle in our body to the biggest galaxy has made her realized how important are positive actions, in our transitory lifespan – those that can contribute to the well-being of all living things and the respect of our environment.
Concept of the Natural Dyes
Concept of the natural dyes and herbal medicine connected to truth as realized in meditation. Another nomadic project, learning about and collecting colours and healing properties of the plants from Asia Pacific, and particularly in disappearing primary forest of South East Asia and Australia (Laos and Tasmania)
Trying to live a life that embraces the following human qualities:
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Confronting the reality of death, and making out one’s will
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Letting go of longings and loathings, and renouncing negative habits
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Focusing attention on “just this” present moment
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Softening biased opinions and idealistic notions of perfection
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Extending ongoing patience and forgiveness to self and to others
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Realizing immanence : the quality of the sacred in simple, ordinary, everyday things
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Relying more on insights and introspective truths than on doctrine
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Radiating a playful flexibility and openness from a core of stability
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Accepting and reconciling life’s opposites
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Expressing a sense of responsibility for others with kindness and selfless compassion
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Expressing a deep sense of gratitude for the gift of life and for all those who have eased its burdens.
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Education
1997-2000
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Masters of Fine Arts (Printmaking), School of Arts at Hobart, University of Tasmania
Solo Exhibitions
2003
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Back in Time (Of Peace), Australian Galleries
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Works on Paper, Sydney, Toki Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
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Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2002
- Transit I, Gallery 482, Brisbane, Australia
- Transit II, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
- Wardrobe, Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2000
- Prey (Pray), Second Cambodian Portrait Series, Installation, Gallery 4A, Sidney, Australia
- Miss Satin, Prints & Textiles, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Australia
- Searching Cambodia: First Portrait Series, Installation, Entrepot Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1999
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La Dernière Mode – Soieries et dentelles, Prints & Textiles, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
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Etchings, Musée des beaux-Arts du Locle, Etchings, Switzerland
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Unfolding the Sumptuous Night, Etchings, Gallery 482, Brisbane, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2002
- International Women’s Festival, Aleppo, Syria
- Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia
2000
- Sapporo Print Biennal, Sapporo, Japan
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