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Alexandra Johnson Watrous

Raising Trees

2006

This play is a reflection on the (im)possibility of accepting diversity and the other. The fragmented body of the neoplasm—the fruit of unstable conditions—overcomes barriers, loves and denies itself and others, wanders around, forgetting its profession. It frequently and with pleasure divides, goes through dangerous palpation, questions the possibility of contact with the experience of the other. Poorly brought up but very successful, it invites us to a trans-species transition.

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This work, which has some association with the artist's ceramic forms, is more significantly a meditation on a close family member (who grew trees). The branches here are trained into an impressive conformation (by an insistent wind?).

Curated by Graham Shearing

Exhibition

Gestures 9: November 11, 2006 – January 7, 2007
About The Artist
Alexandra Watrous is the Artistic Coordinator at the Sweetwater Center for the Arts.

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