Abstract
Exhibition Dates: 23 Nov 2023 - 24 Feb 2024
Exhibition Venue: Parafin, London
Kovats’ research and outputs are driven by her position that encounters with artworks can enrich our relationship with the non-human world at this critical time of climate crisis. Kovats appreciates that art cannot solve our climate crisis but predicates her research and practice on the belief in how art keeps our environment challenges to the forefront of both our conscious and unconscious minds. The title of the exhibition alludes to a cosmology or a correspondence between different layers of experience, suggesting that the celestial effects the terrestrial, and vice versa, lending this Hermetic text an environmental interpretation.
The exhibition selects artworks that form part of Kovats enquiry into our collective ‘sea blindness’ or lack of attention on the importance of the health of our seas to the health of the planet, including five ‘Seamark’ works. A number of works such as ‘Full Moons’, Luna’ and ‘No, Wax, Full, Wane’ present her research and visual exploration of the potential value of the lunar cycle to address our privileging of a solar timeframe, where we are increasingly and artificially ‘on’ at all times. Other works such as ‘Sicily’ address her research onto the sea as a deeply troubled socio-political space of migration and exile, where environmental challenges intersect with socio political injustice.
https://www.parafin.co.uk/exhibitions/2023/exhibitions-2023-tania-kovats
The exhibition has led to a number of wide-ranging esteemed opportunities for Kovats’ ongoing future research and outputs and MCO’s.
These include:
•Being invited to be a Judge for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award for 2024;
•the invitation to develop and research a new methodology for her SEAMARKS, taking her work into tapestry with the Dovecote Studio Edinburgh presented with exhibition August 2024, inclusion in exhibitions at the National M K Ciurlionis Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania,
•An exhibition at Beelden aan Zee in The Hague,
•Inclusion in ‘Planet Ocean’ at The Box Plymouth,
•Being awarded the Simon Industrial & Professional Fellowship from Manchester University 2024 to carry out research on 17thC Naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian with various public outputs in summer 2024.
Exhibition Venue: Parafin, London
Kovats’ research and outputs are driven by her position that encounters with artworks can enrich our relationship with the non-human world at this critical time of climate crisis. Kovats appreciates that art cannot solve our climate crisis but predicates her research and practice on the belief in how art keeps our environment challenges to the forefront of both our conscious and unconscious minds. The title of the exhibition alludes to a cosmology or a correspondence between different layers of experience, suggesting that the celestial effects the terrestrial, and vice versa, lending this Hermetic text an environmental interpretation.
The exhibition selects artworks that form part of Kovats enquiry into our collective ‘sea blindness’ or lack of attention on the importance of the health of our seas to the health of the planet, including five ‘Seamark’ works. A number of works such as ‘Full Moons’, Luna’ and ‘No, Wax, Full, Wane’ present her research and visual exploration of the potential value of the lunar cycle to address our privileging of a solar timeframe, where we are increasingly and artificially ‘on’ at all times. Other works such as ‘Sicily’ address her research onto the sea as a deeply troubled socio-political space of migration and exile, where environmental challenges intersect with socio political injustice.
https://www.parafin.co.uk/exhibitions/2023/exhibitions-2023-tania-kovats
The exhibition has led to a number of wide-ranging esteemed opportunities for Kovats’ ongoing future research and outputs and MCO’s.
These include:
•Being invited to be a Judge for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year award for 2024;
•the invitation to develop and research a new methodology for her SEAMARKS, taking her work into tapestry with the Dovecote Studio Edinburgh presented with exhibition August 2024, inclusion in exhibitions at the National M K Ciurlionis Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania,
•An exhibition at Beelden aan Zee in The Hague,
•Inclusion in ‘Planet Ocean’ at The Box Plymouth,
•Being awarded the Simon Industrial & Professional Fellowship from Manchester University 2024 to carry out research on 17thC Naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian with various public outputs in summer 2024.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Place of Publication | London, UK |
| Publisher | Parafin |
| Media of output | Other |
| Publication status | Published - 23 Nov 2023 |
| Event | Tania Kovats: as above so below - Parafin, London, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Nov 2023 → 24 Feb 2024 https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/tania-kovats-as-above-so-below/ |
Keywords
- art
- drawings
- exhibition
- sea
- moon
- lunar
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
