What if we focus on Sustenance - what nourishes and sustains all life, in equitable cultivation of earth’s entangled ecologies and all beings? Sustenance proposes we shift to a worlding perspective, where humans, nonhumans and the earth are inextricably interconnected, in a transcontinental cooperative stewardship that preserves one holistic global ecosystem.
Sustenance unfolds existential queries, in discursive passage, intermingling past into future. Riya Bhagat’s Fashion After Fashion: The Clothing from the Future as an Ecosystem with Bacteria Living Inside It, 2024, is a futurist fashion imaginary of sculpture and film. Therein, living bacteria produce cellulose on contact with our skin, cultivated by us, to cloth us. We traverse Victor Guerin’s stone and metal sculpture, Cracks of Potential series 2025, Liminal, an uncertain future, where life may, or may not survive, in disrupted ecologies. In Echoes of Extraction, 2024, we witness past extraction industry’s remains, where nature’s ingenious resilience reclaims terrain. Elina Yumesheva’s Living Forms series’ (2024-) paintings recast the past into the present, exploring pre-petrochemical painting techniques, dyes and materials, to celebrate new painting aesthetics, sustainable processes and paintings’ expanded potential. Her paintings embody performative movement – ‘the sway of the natural world’, harmonized with human intention.
Bhagat, Guerin and Yumesheva’s works mediate sustainable materials, artistic processes and technical innovation, to engage visitors in ecological interdependence. Materially and conceptually, their sustainable materials and processes confer human and nature’s interconnected ecologies, intermeshed with human intention, scientific investigation and technology, past into the future.
Their existential queries suggest potential remedial action. The artists’ perspectives address the current literature’s timely urgencies, in arts and sciences, on climate and the earth’s human non-human entangled interconnectedness.
Featured Artists: Riya Bhagat, Victor Guerin and Elina Yumasheva
Curated by: Beverley Harrison | fasciclecontemporary.com
Exhibition Details:
Thursday, June 19th - 10:30- 5:00 pm, Private View 6-9 pm.
Friday, June 20th - 10:30 - 5 pm
Saturday June 21st - 10:30 - 5 pm, Workshops on Sustainable Materials, 2-4 pm.
Sunday June 22nd - 10:30 - 5pm, Finissage - 2-4 pm. Artist Roundtable Discussion.
The exhibition is free to attend, and we can’t wait to welcome you!
Location: ASC, The Handbag Factory | Gallery 1.