Abstract
Exhibition Dates: April - September 2017
Venue: University of Aberdeen, UK
Featuring the work Contemplative Clothes by artist, Emilia Ferraro.
Contemplative Clothes: 90cm x 60cm; 90cm x 60cm; 45 cm x 35cm; 30cm x 20cm. Cotton canvas, silk; organza; paper. Mixed media. Hand and machine stitches; silk threads; acrylics; ink; tea.
Artist's Statement:The pieces I am presenting here came from a place within myself I did not know
existed. In a time that equates knowing with certitude, the unfinishing of things,
speaks to me of the open-endedness and uncertainty that mystique Osho calls
“awe”. The generative and fertile power of NOT knowing. Whatever its definition,
inspiration is born from a continuous “I don’t know”, Polish poet and Nobel
Laureate Wislawa Szymborska wrote.
Far from being ignorance, not knowing is the acknowledgment of and
surrendering to the ongoing mystery of Life; the conscious abandonment of the
need for control to embrace the Mystery as it is unfolding now in my life. Indeed,
“it is the flirting with this mystery -astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser writes- the urge
to go beyond the boundaries of the known, that feeds our creative impulse, that
makes us want to know more”.
Knowing From the Inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design (or for short, KFI) is a 5-year project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant held by Professor Tim Ingold. It commenced in June 2013, and will run until May 2018.
Venue: University of Aberdeen, UK
Featuring the work Contemplative Clothes by artist, Emilia Ferraro.
Contemplative Clothes: 90cm x 60cm; 90cm x 60cm; 45 cm x 35cm; 30cm x 20cm. Cotton canvas, silk; organza; paper. Mixed media. Hand and machine stitches; silk threads; acrylics; ink; tea.
Artist's Statement:The pieces I am presenting here came from a place within myself I did not know
existed. In a time that equates knowing with certitude, the unfinishing of things,
speaks to me of the open-endedness and uncertainty that mystique Osho calls
“awe”. The generative and fertile power of NOT knowing. Whatever its definition,
inspiration is born from a continuous “I don’t know”, Polish poet and Nobel
Laureate Wislawa Szymborska wrote.
Far from being ignorance, not knowing is the acknowledgment of and
surrendering to the ongoing mystery of Life; the conscious abandonment of the
need for control to embrace the Mystery as it is unfolding now in my life. Indeed,
“it is the flirting with this mystery -astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser writes- the urge
to go beyond the boundaries of the known, that feeds our creative impulse, that
makes us want to know more”.
Knowing From the Inside: Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design (or for short, KFI) is a 5-year project funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant held by Professor Tim Ingold. It commenced in June 2013, and will run until May 2018.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Aberdeen, UK |
| Publisher | University of Aberdeen |
| Media of output | Other |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Event | The Unfinishing of Things: Knowing From the Inside - University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom Duration: 1 May 2017 → 30 Nov 2017 https://www.abdn.ac.uk/research/kfi/gallery/album13/page1 |