THE UNCLOSED GARDEN
5 years unfolded in a first multidisciplinary solo show
STEP 1 / Residency January 2023 - Stair Program - Graz - Austria.
This webpage presents the exhibition conceived in 4 weeks. This large scale project will need more residency of creation to share all the artworks of the last years. Work in progress
Statement
Flyer for the exhibition opening
With extract of one surreal video creation made in tribute to women I interviewed on the way
Process of creation
I call this process an EXPLOSITION
- it's an exhibition created
in a short period of time
WALLS of archives, videos and photos of fieldwork, drawings of the exhibition map
A 400 sqm LABYRINTH
Drawings
Portrait of a woman interviewed in Thailand
<< MAP OF THE EXHIBITION>>
Weaving
stories
memories
WHat is this ?
The Unclosed Garden is the achievement of a process of individuation started 25 years ago. I have dedicated my artistic life on care practices (self care techniques and caring, loving others) through dance, polyphony, multisensory installation with videos, fabrics, parfums, soundscapes, poems, designing shows, spaces, events, to welcome.
This webpage presents a first sketch of solo show that "unclose" / open / share The Enclosed Garden, this octopus project I started in 2018.
First tentacle is:
A Fieldwork on women artists and famrers stuggles. What techniques of release are used by them
Second tentacle :
A Festival for women on ecology, psychology through experimental arts practices in countries where fieldwork where conducted
Third tentacle :
An essay (travellogue) on transformative process that happens when we interview others and constantly move (geographically and matally) through one place to another.
This solo show is about unfolding all the contexnt of my hardrives and personal memories, to spread and share the experiences, the interviews, the learnings, spreading around how empowering and healing some experiences could be even if fincancially and emotionally this project could bring some precarity and insecurity.
The octopus Gesamtkunstwerk
"As a curator and art director of show, I was interesting to explore ways to connect peopke to eacho other deeper. Therefore I have experimented several kind of scenography. The Labyrith is the good one. It's a space where everyone wonder, dream, heal, meet, or isolate. Here 400sqm and 5 rooms where offered to me. I decided work days and nights to share as much as possible
In a huge labyrinth made of fabrics (like skin, entering inside a belly), visitors could discover 4 years of interviews of women craft, environmentalists, activists and artists in Georgia, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan where I have developed the festival for women on ecology & psychology & art The Enclosed Garden.
This show developed through residencies here and there is getting more and more intense, long, fascimnating. And I always encounter new women artists with whom we share this space of creation and reflexion. "
by Celia Stroom. Project - Step 1 January 2023
room one
room two
room three
room FOUR