Invitation - Iraqui opening
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
Join us for drinks and refreshments and to enjoy the work of artist, researcher and PHD candidate Nicolle Desmarchelier
IRAQUI – Nicolle Desmarchelier
• Opening at 6pm, Friday 7th October
• Free entry
Exhibition: Monday 10th October to Friday 14th October
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm, not open on the weekend
Iraqui, opening at Spectrum Project Space on Friday October the 7th, exhibits the work of artist, researcher and PHD candidate Nicolle Desmarchelier inspired by her residency working with Shipibo women artists from the Amazon lowlands in the east of Peru. Iraqui is the word for thankyou in Shipibo, and in her first solo exhibition, Desmarchelier has stitched her own response to the traditional cloth work of the Shipibo women and their oral culture and traditions, which are passed on in the forms of stories, song, patterns, colours and myths.
After a trip to Lquitos in 2008, Peru where Desmarchelier first came across the work of Shipobo women, she began researching their artwork, cloth reading and the effects of globalization encroaching on their traditions and made this the focus of her PHD studies. In 2010 Desmarchelier undertook a three-month residency interacting with and working alongside the Shipibo women artists of the Amazon lowlands. As their guest she conducted extensive interviews while sharing food and houses with the Shipibo women and their families who hand stitch their cloths. Often their only common language was mutual hand making.
Iraqui, is Desmarchelier’s creative response to the intercultural dialogue between herself and the Shipibo women, and the exhibition consists of sound, projection, Shipibo hand made cloths and hand made stitched pieces.
For more information please contact Spectrum Project Space coordinator Yvonne Doherty at spectrum@ecu.edu.au
For more information please visit the Iraqui project Spectrum web page.
We look forward to seeing you at Spectrum Project Space!
Yvonne Doherty
Coordinator
Spectrum Project Space
Spectrum Project Space
Building 3.194
School of Communications and Arts
Edith Cowan University
2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley, WA, 6050, Australia
Office: 3.279
Telephone: (61 8) 9370 6906
Mobile: 0405 963 417
Email: spectrum@ecu.edu.au
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