Claire Morgan: Perpetually at the Centre
The Galerie Karsten Greve is pleased to present Perpetually at the Centre: a new exhibition of Claire Morgan鈥檚 work. A visual artist of Irish origin, she is one of the most sought after and talented artists on the international scene today. This exhibition unveils the artist鈥檚 most recent works, created especially for this space, to the public. Fuelled by environmental and ethical concerns, this exhibition includes four new suspended installations predominated by the dynamics between the bodies of taxidermy animals that seem to be contained within synthetic or alien environments, and new compositions displayed in vitrines, including one that incorporates text. A corpus of delicate sketches permits us to discover the artist鈥檚 meticulous creative work juxtaposed with the ardent and instinctive impetus of a surprising series of large-scale canvases.
Claire Morgan鈥檚 work explores the ambivalence in the human being鈥檚 relationship with the natural world that surrounds him/her. The artist鈥檚 reflections on the human presence in the world, which has resulted in the progressive destruction of our natural environment, are externalised in her installations using taxidermy animals that appear to be inhabiting and adapting to a world of superficial post-consumer waste that engulfs them. In the suspended temporality that defines these aerial sculptures, in which bodies are immobilised in a state of perpetual motion, this conflict plays out between life and death; between the organic and the artificial.
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The Galerie Karsten Greve is pleased to present Perpetually at the Centre: a new exhibition of Claire Morgan鈥檚 work. A visual artist of Irish origin, she is one of the most sought after and talented artists on the international scene today. This exhibition unveils the artist鈥檚 most recent works, created especially for this space, to the public. Fuelled by environmental and ethical concerns, this exhibition includes four new suspended installations predominated by the dynamics between the bodies of taxidermy animals that seem to be contained within synthetic or alien environments, and new compositions displayed in vitrines, including one that incorporates text. A corpus of delicate sketches permits us to discover the artist鈥檚 meticulous creative work juxtaposed with the ardent and instinctive impetus of a surprising series of large-scale canvases.
Claire Morgan鈥檚 work explores the ambivalence in the human being鈥檚 relationship with the natural world that surrounds him/her. The artist鈥檚 reflections on the human presence in the world, which has resulted in the progressive destruction of our natural environment, are externalised in her installations using taxidermy animals that appear to be inhabiting and adapting to a world of superficial post-consumer waste that engulfs them. In the suspended temporality that defines these aerial sculptures, in which bodies are immobilised in a state of perpetual motion, this conflict plays out between life and death; between the organic and the artificial.
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