Claras em castelo ou a consistência da liquidez

Alison Saar. Coup, 2006

Nos momentos mais líquidos, a arte é uma boa embarcação. As esculturas de Alison Saar, nascida em Los Angeles em 1956, têm raízes que bebem, sobretudo, na mitologia grega e na tradição africana e ameríndia.

Alison Saar. Brod.

“Informed by artistic traditions from the Americas to Africa and beyond, and by her mixed racial upbringing, Alison Saar fuses her paradoxical responses to the black-and-white delineations of political and social forces into a powerful, visual, and kinesthetic tension. Saar uses the history and associations of her materials, everyday experience, African art and ritual, Greek mythology, and the stark sculptural tradition of German Expressionism to infuse her work with an intensity that challenges cultural and historic references and stereotypes. Through a process of self-scrutiny and introspection, Saar forcefully investigates elements of marginalization and discrimination to present poetic responses as to how these historical burdens can be transformed, and how symbolic atonement, and even some measure of redemption, can be imagined”.
http://www.massart.edu/Galleries/Bakalar_and_Paine/Past_Exhibitions_2014/Alison_Saar_STILL.html

Fig 01. Alison Saar

Fig 02. Alison Saar, Strange Fruit. 1995

Fig 03. Alison Saar. Conked, 1997

Fig 04. Alison Saar. Nappy Head #1. 1997

Fig 05. Alison Saar. Panoramio. C. 1999.

Fig 06. Alison Saar. Travellin’ Light. 1999.

Fig 07. Alison Saar. Conjure. Pormenor

Fig 08. Allison Saar’s Lost and Found. 2003.

Fig 09. Allison Saar. Lost and Found.

Fig 10. Alison Saar. Bareroot. 2007.

Fig 11. Alison Saar. Tippy Toes. 2007.

Fig 12. Alison Saar. Fall. 2011.

Fig 13. Alison Saar. Spring. 2011

Fig 14. Alison Saar. Winter. 2011

Fig 15. Alison Saar. Winter. 2011. Pormenor.

Fig 16. Alison Saar, Rouse, 2012

Fig 17. Alison Saar. 2012

Fig 18. Alison Saar. 50 Proof. 2012 (Pormenor)

Fig 19. Alison Saar. Cotton Eater. 2013

Fig 20. Alison Saar. Slough. 2013

Fig 21. Alison Saar. Weight. 2013.