OPENING RECEPTION: April 9, 2011 | 7 – 10pm
Spinello Projects
155 NE 38th Street, No. 101
Miami, FL 33137
Agustina Woodgate’s work reminds us that all corporeal entities are interconnected with themselves and each other. Her practice investigates how stories, rituals, and traditions transform our relationships with the objects and places around us. This being-in-relation is a way of perceiving, a mode of moving, and a narrative of global truths designed by cultural fictions. COLLECTIVISM presents Woodgate’s evolution by moving its audience towards a collective future, that is integrated, involved, inclusive, and in continual process.
Woodgate explains, “I create art that fosters exchanges between people rather than encounters between a viewer and object. Through these exchanges, meaning is elaborated collectively, rather than in the space of individual consumption.”
She creates responses to social narratives through situations that unveil the tensions between the natural-becoming-unnatural and the unnatural-becoming-natural. Woodgate’s work discovers illogical, surreal scenarios from otherwise realistic or “normal” settings, revealing unconscious transience in beliefs and behaviors between these two worlds.
COLLECTIVISM includes pivotal early career works such as “Changes” to Woodgate’s most recent monumental accomplishment to date, “No Rain No Rainbows”. Originally exhibited in her first-ever exhibition with Spinello, “Organic” (2005), “Changes” is a collection of 24 monoprints comprising of 12 completely hairless nude bodies of the artist. With hair that has shed from her head and collected from her daily showering ritual during the course of one year, Woodgate sews her body waste onto the monoprint panels. “Changes” addresses the intimate relation that each individual has with their body through an often unspoken topic, bodily hair.
Inspired by nature and its cycle, the monumental textile floor covering “No Rain No Rainbows” is Woodgate’s largest rug to date, measuring 9.5′ x 16′ and the most recent addition to Woodgate’s Rug Collection. The Rug Collection Series consists of a total of six Hand-sewn and designed rugs made from recycled stuffed animals skins. The rugs not only reference the personal histories of the toy’s owners, but investigate the rug as an object organizing and displaying memories and lineages.
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