Clarissa Tossin: To Take Root among the Stars
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Author: Tossin, Clarissa
Clarissa Tossin employs film, sculpture and drawing to explore the intersections of climate change and global capitalism’s frontier mythologies. This catalogue presents an overview of Tossin’s career through full-colour reproductions of works spanning from 2008-2023, including images of new works commissioned by the Frye Art Museum. Essays by curator Vic Brooks, Leslie Dick and Georgia Erger offer intimate assessments of the artist’s practice at a timely moment.The exhibition borrows its title from science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Earthseed novels, in which humans seek to survive amid ecological and cultural apocalypse. Tossin’s new works explore mapping and naming as colonial technologies of discovery and conquest on Earth and beyond. Through their seamless melding of synthetic and organic materials, the artist’s works embody the tension between ecological destruction and the caretaking approaches of Indigenous communities.
ISBN 9781646570355. Frye Art Museum. pb. 128 pages. 100 colour ills. 24.1 x 16.5 cm.
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Clarissa Tossin employs film, sculpture and drawing to explore the intersections of climate change and global capitalism’s frontier mythologies. This catalogue presents an overview of Tossin’s career through full-colour reproductions of works spanning from 2008-2023, including images of new works commissioned by the Frye Art Museum. Essays by curator Vic Brooks, Leslie Dick and Georgia Erger offer intimate assessments of the artist’s practice at a timely moment.The exhibition borrows its title from science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Earthseed novels, in which humans seek to survive amid ecological and cultural apocalypse. Tossin’s new works explore mapping and naming as colonial technologies of discovery and conquest on Earth and beyond. Through their seamless melding of synthetic and organic materials, the artist’s works embody the tension between ecological destruction and the caretaking approaches of Indigenous communities.
ISBN 9781646570355. Frye Art Museum. pb. 128 pages. 100 colour ills. 24.1 x 16.5 cm.
available