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ROPE TWISTS ROPE KNOTS NET NOT NOOSE ANTIGONE ROSE ANTIGONE ROSE
The exhibition ANTIGONES NET by Jessica Warboys began with the artist’s encounter with the play Antigone by French playwright Jean Anouilh. Warboys, an artist that listens closely to chance, inconspicuous signs and perhaps even fate, found a copy of the play — dropped in a street, in Paris.
Antigone, originally a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles (440 BC), is a story of Oedipus’ daughter, a young woman who purposely disobeys a direct order from the King, her uncle, knowing the fatal consequences that will follow. Ceaselessly, over the centuries Antigone has been rewritten and performed, inspiring contemporary culture, philosophy and psychoanalysis in proposing a complex reading of politics, desire, gender, resistance and punishment.
Within a new multi-channel film and sound work also titled ANTIGONES NET, a faceted Antigone is visualised through prop...More
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ROPE TWISTS ROPE KNOTS NET NOT NOOSE ANTIGONE ROSE ANTIGONE ROSE
The exhibition ANTIGONES NET by Jessica Warboys began with the artist’s encounter with the play Antigone by French playwright Jean Anouilh. Warboys, an artist that listens closely to chance, inconspicuous signs and perhaps even fate, found a copy of the play — dropped in a street, in Paris.
Antigone, originally a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles (440 BC), is a story of Oedipus’ daughter, a young woman who purposely disobeys a direct order from the King, her uncle, knowing the fatal consequences that will follow. Ceaselessly, over the centuries Antigone has been rewritten and performed, inspiring contemporary culture, philosophy and psychoanalysis in proposing a complex reading of politics, desire, gender, resistance and punishment.
Within a new multi-channel film and sound work also titled ANTIGONES NET, a faceted Antigone is visualised through prop...More