‘Sometimes words fail us, we need another language and so we create art because that speaks differently’ — Chantal Meza, quoted in Trebuchet, issue 15.
Reduced, as so many of us currently are, to dazed dumbfoundedness, the visceral idiom of art may be our most eloquent form. (Even if all we can do is howl.)
Extract from press materials: Chantal Meza’s new collection Eden Bleeds has been inspired by the shadows that contrast a planet so oversaturated with human pollution and ravaged by the disappearance of our shared biosphere, it’s only a matter of time before all the colours bleed into a perilous whole, which now resides where Eden once stood.
As Chantal explains: “What appears in the colour are disappearing life-world systems. What appears in the ferocious lines are the misguided energies of extraction and depletion.”
Eden Bleeds will be exhibited in the beautiful and majestic St Marys Church in Redcliffe, Bristol. It will run from Friday 8 th March to Tuesday 22 April. Recognising the importance of this exhibition, the church has decided to frame its full lent program to dealing with ecological concerns. The exhibition will showcase 14 works which will be exhibited for the first time in public.
In addition, leading thinkers from pioneering organizations like The Eco-Leadership Institute, Alameda Institute and Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Bath will participate in a series of public talks and workshops. Tours of the works will be held to inform the public on the importance of art and how we might reimagine social responses to this collective planetary issue and bring new attention to the multiple ways ecologies are endangered.
Eden Bleeds
St Marys Church,
Redcliffe, Bristol.
Friday 8th March to Tuesday 22 April.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
