RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Goodman Gallery, Agustina Ferreyra and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Goodman Gallery and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Goodman Gallery and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Goodman Gallery, Agustina Ferreyra and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Tabita Rezaire, INNER FIRE: Bown Down, 2017, diasec print, 170 x 100 cm, edition of 5. Courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Benito Mayor Vallejo and Zadie Xa, performance mask for Basic Instructions B4 Leaving, 2016 and Flooded with ICE/Hellfire Can’t Scotch Me, 2018, polymer resin, acrylic paint, bleached denim and synthetic hair, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Agustina Ferreyra, Sophie Tappeiner and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Agustina Ferreyra and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
SAGG_NAPOLI, Only monument I wanna feel, 2019, car paint, spray paint, stell and vinyl, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
SAGG_NAPOLI, Only monument I wanna feel, 2019, (detail). Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Agustina Ferreyra and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Agustina Ferreyra and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
RADICAL SELF LOVE, installation view, Sophie Tappeiner, 2019. Courtesy of Sophie Tappeiner, Goodman Gallery, Agustina Ferreyra and the artists. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Tabita Rezaire, Seneb Water, 2016, 6 water drums made of calabashes, vinyl, iPad, Url Healing offering, dimensions variable, edition of 3. Courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Tabita Rezaire, Seneb Water, 2016, (detail). Courtesy of Goodman Gallery, Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
Zadie Xa, Float, 2018, machine stitched and hand sewn fabric, bleach and oil on canvas, 165 x 193 cm. Courtesy of Agustina Ferreyra, Sophie Tappeiner and the artist. Copyright: www.kunst-dokumentation.com
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Audre Lorde
RADICAL SELF LOVE is an exhibition that offers three distinct positions on excavating cultural roots and worshipping them through personal journeys and subjective reinterpretations. Proudly embracing and caring for ones origins and traditions, the works presented unravel the spiritual, political and social issues of the artists’ ancestries and often incorporates the artists’ personal image to narrate contemporary tales of diversity, individual challenges and global inclinations. The three artists all come from idiosyncratic backgrounds and each of them utilises their persona as a powerful medium, an instrument to articulate the nuances of identity constructions in the contemporary global society.
The artists’ works are highly multidisciplinary and often collaborative, encompassing music, fashion, digital space, yoga sessions and healing practices. The outcomes of their work ranges from performance to video, from textiles to dj-sets, and are always extremely recognizable in their potent aesthetics.
RADICAL SELF LOVE is a formula that gives permission to cherish individual authenticity and forgive the times when we forget our own distinctive power. Accepting the complexity of ones past means empowering personal identity, while mastering authenticity produces fiercer selves.
In RADICAL SELF LOVE the words are intentionally separated, highlighting the significance of each term. I invite you to contemplate radicality as love and self-love as a forceful revolution.
Nicoletta Lambertucci
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