Details of artworks by Patrice Balvay, 4°3’26”N,0°4’9.2″E-4°2’56”,0°16’26″N,0°16’26″E (III) – Courtesy Patrice Balvay ; and Daphne Marks, Yalka at Karrkurutinytja (Bush Onion Dreaming at Lake Macdonald) – Courtesy Ikuntji Artists.
After its exhibition in the City of Le Havre, the artist collaboration project with French artist Patrice Balvay and a collective of women artists from the community of Haasts Bluff located in the central desert of Australia (Ann Lane, Anne Dixon, Daphne Marks, Eileen Anyama Napaltjarri, Eunice Napanangka Jack, Keturah Zimran, and Patricia Multa), is hosted by the Australian Embassy in Paris.
Patrice Balvay and the collective of Australian artists created two series of panoramic works in parallel, 7 drawings and 7 paintings. These works are a topographical, symbolic and emotional transcriptions – on the model of the Aboriginal “dream” – of an experience of two territories: the city of Le Havre and the Australian desert.
A project initiated by Patrice Balvay, organised in collaboration with IDAIA and the Ikuntji Artists cooperative in Haasts Bluff, in partnership with the City of Le Havre and The Australian Embassy in France, and with the support of SIFA Logistics.
Curated by Patrice Balvay and Solenne Ducos-Lamotte, IDAIA’s director, in collaboration with the seven participating Ikuntji artists Ann Lane, Anne Dixon, Daphne Marks, Eileen Anyama Napaltjarri, Eunice Napanangka Jack, Keturah Zimran, and Patricia Multa ; and Dr Chrischona Schmidt, Ikuntji Artists manager.
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