More of the snails Workshops in the gallery Artwork by year Sonja's c.v. Sonja's Design page Thumbnail images
More of the snails Workshops in the gallery Artwork by year Sonja's c.v. Sonja's Design page Thumbnail images
Sarah installed her work on the central panel and on the right side of the wing and Sonja assembled her work on the left side.
Left: The 12 photograph-montage of members of Ngāti Ranana (London Maori Club) is by Sarah Buist.
Right: Dans le jardin des beaux arts (the snail forms), Stars for feet, (transparency of child's foot) Video compilation, Grains of Salt, Virtue of the Rose (small objects on the back wall), A Tangled Tale (on right wall), Certain Measures (sticks on the table), detail of a work on the right by Sarah Buist.
Above left: Certain Measures, five wooden rods on the table
(table courtesy of Louise + Martyn Andrews, Whanganui).
Above right: Detail of the back wall showing a postcard of
the work Tulips from Instanbul
<< The wing on the right: Sarah discussing her work in the right side of the wing with students from the art school.
She built a false wall and hung pompoms (visible through the windows) behind this.
Around the walls she hung drawings and paintings. In the central space there were drawings made by participants in her workshops.
<< On the back wall in the left wing, top to bottom:
Thread, 2000, black thread hung from the ceiling (top left) with a pencilled text underneath (low on the side wall, not visible in this photo).
Tulips from Istanbul, tulip form, top right.
Schaduw (Shadow), postcard of an etching on paper
Grains of Salt
diamond shaped relief print with salt.
Stars for Feet, 2000, transparency print, 18 x 28 cm.
Virtue of the Rose, relief object, 22 x 18 cm.
A Tangled Tale (on right wall),
Dans le jardin des beaux arts, 2000, 19 snail-forms on the floor.
Overview near the end of the two month exhibition.
The walls were bare in the beginning with just the postcards and the small framed works, as well as the single black thread hanging from the ceiling in the left corner. I added the horns on the right about a month into the exhibition.
On the evening of the opening I wrote the text:
The princess received a magic collection of threads and was told that she should pull out a thread whenever she was unhappy. When the thread came out the unpleasant time would be over. Soon most of the threads were gone and the princess was an old old woman.
This is the same text on the second largest snail form. On reading this text on the in the corner, if anyone looked up they would see this single thread that seems to unwind from a corner of the ceiling.
The videos shown on the tv were:
Savour the Experience, 6 min, English text.
Athena, 2 min, music by Evren Celimli, U.S.A.
Essences and Particularities, 6 min, music by Evren Celimli.
Wrapping for a Marginal Citizen, 12 min, music by M. Verheecke.
Crossing, 5 min, music by Ben Koen + Joe Feidler, U.S.A.
Grains of Salt, 6 min, text in English and Dutch.
Detail of the back wall showing Virtue of the
Rose, (lower left) Stars for feet, and a member
of the public writing a text on the wall
during one of the workshops.
Detail showing Grains of Salt.
On a day that I'd removed the snails, a class of 5 year olds arrived wanting to know what had happened to the snails, so I handed them out to groups of children, with the request that each group had to decide where to lay out the snail and then to do this.
They then helped each other to read the texts.
The text here reads:
"You Challenge me?", laughed the hare.
