ARTWORK · ANIMALS · DISGUISE · 2023
NOUN · /ˌbriːkoʊˈlɑːʒ/ · CONSTRUCTION FROM WHATEVER IS AT HAND
Natural materials and manmade detritus, routinely discarded as worthless. Combined and transformed into new entities that bear the marks of their origins, history and alteration. The inherent worthiness of all matter, and the rejection of a hierarchy of values.
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Driftwood and found objects, raised into fifteen standing figures. The visible discontinuities are the point. It is from brokenness that we create new configurations.
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Bags Across the Globe (BAG) is a global intervention conceived and carried out by Ann Savageau from 2008 to the present. The large-scale installation addresses the disastrous unintended environmental consequences of one of the most widespread consumer products on the globe, the single use plastic shopping bag.