EXHIBITION: Daphne Gerou
November
7 - November 25, 2007
"
natura numine"
Opening Reception:
Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Daphne Gerou - natura numine
November 7 - 25, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday November 8, 7-10 pm
Gallery Hours: Wed-Sat, 12-6, Sunday 12-5
Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts – North Gallery
An exhibition of graphite works on paper, natura numine returns to the pre-illumination period in Western history, in which the natural world, being one's immediate environment, remained endowed with pseudo-pagan qualities. Although generally frowned upon by the Roman Catholic Church, animism in religious practice persisted for centuries until new areas of knowledge began to surface, specifically, those of science and physical evolution.
As the technologies and political ideology of human societies continue to lead the world into a cataclysmic destruction of itself, the relationship between nature and culture becomes again, significant. The drawings in natura numine are imagined archetypes, animal figures that are reflective of the post-industrial world, as well as of its older predecessor. Their statement, a reminder: the world has been here much longer than we. Its mechanism has developed to sustain myriad aspects of life, which all exist in dependence of each other.
Much like a chamber of reliquaries, the works of this exhibition are installed to encourage temple-like processions, from one end to the other, a pilgrimage through personifications of the numinous world.