The Picnic

plaster, haematite pigment (courtesy of the Florence Paintmakers at Florence Mine), varnish, oil paint, synthetic hair extensions

dimensions variable

2016 onwards

From Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic to Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock it's the table cloth to the ground kind of moment, dining outside, eating off the forest floor. It's the collapse of the structures we know, it's "the Witch, the perverse creature who does everything backwards and upside down" (according to Jules Michelet in Satanism and Witchcraft), it's ‘what yields to gravity’, 'the soul returns to the body' (John Baldassari collage of a seal diving into the body of a dead lion)

<< install shot from 'Risky Attachments' (curated by Like A Little Disaster), FOOTHOLD, Polignano a Mare, Italy

As picnics do, they get around a bit... 

<< install shot from Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 at John Moores University for The Liverpool Biennial 


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