Edge of Chaos (Expelled from Paradise)

On the occasion of the 56th Biennale di Venezia, Vita Zaman and Nicola Vassell are pleased to present Edge of Chaos (Expelled from Paradise), an exhibition with new works by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gianluca Malgeri and Audra Vau.

Edge of Chaos (Expelled from Paradise) is inspired by the artists’ response to the current global crisis, where chaos reigns. Their work investigates the parallels that exist between the oppression and subordination of women, social and economic injustice and the degradation of nature. All three artists are supporters of the alternative worldview that values the earth as sacred, recognizes humanity’s dependency on the natural world and embraces all life as valuable.

Ecofeminism points out that women have a special interconnectivity with nature that has been ignored. The alternative modes of knowing, which are oriented to the social needs as well as spirituality are not recognized by the capitalist reductionist paradigm; a paradigm that creates conceptual binaries and ideological hierarchies and allows a systematic justification of domination by one subject over another (e.g. man over woman, culture over nature, white over black).

All the artists created new bodies of work for the exhibition: LaToya Ruby Frazier has made and autobiographical video, which documents a visit to an alternative healer in a detox clinic that she made with her mother. Both of them suffer from illnesses caused by pollution in their town. The sculptures by Ginaluca Malgeri resemble models of utopian architecture and are based on his investigation of works of the Lithuanian symbolist painter and composer Mykalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis. Audra Vau’s new video and photographic series “Out of Control” explores artist’s personal relationship with a very local and post agricultural Lithuanian landscape.

LaToya
 Ruby 
Frazier (b.1982, 
Braddock, 
Penn., 
USA) 
collaborates 
with 
her 
family, 
blurring
 the
 lines
 between
 self‐portraiture
 and
 social
 documentary.
 Solo
 exhibitions
 include A
 Haunted
 Capital,
 Brooklyn 
Museum
 (2013) 
and WITNESS, 
Contemporary 
Arts
 Museum, 
Houston, 
Texas 
(2013). 
Group
 exhibitions 
include Busan 
Biennial, 
South 
Korea 
(2014), New
 York
 Art
 Now,
 Palazzo
dell
 Esposoizioni,
 Rome
 (2013), Whitney
 Biennial
 2012,
 Whitney
 Museum
 of
 American
 Art,
 New
 York
 (2012)
 and The
 Generational
 Triennial:
 Younger
 than Jesus,
 New
 Museum,
 New
 York
 (2009).
 Upcoming
 solo
 exhibition
: 
Galerie 
Michel 
Rein, 
Brussels 
(2015).

Gianluca Malgeri (b.1974, Calabria, Italy) creates multifaceted work that aims at the unexpected. Using photography, drawings, sculpture, installation, video and collage, his work reflects the cities in which he lives. Politics, history and nature inform his borderless artistic language. Solo exhibitions include God Bless You, GaleriArtist, Istanbul (2012); Insha’Allah, Magazzino, Rome (2011) and Apollo and Daphne, White Rabbit, Berlin (2009). Group exhibitions include The Naturalists, curated by Peter Benson Miller, Castellucio di Pienza, Siena (2013); Sphères 4, galleria Continua Le Mulin, Paris (2011); Italiens, curated by Alessandra Pace e Marina Sorbello, Berlin (2010); When Things Cast No Shadow, Berlin Biennale, Johann Konig Gallery, Berlin (2008) and Do It, Foundazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2003).

Audra
 Vau’s 
(b.1970,
 Vilnius, 
Lithuania)
 creative 
practice 
encompasses 
video, 
photography, 
land
art, 
 sound 
and 
performance. 
Her 
work 
examines 
the 
pliable
 realms 
of 
perception, 
emotional 
intelligence 
 and
 connectivity. 
Interaction 
with 
her 
local 
surroundings 
is 
key 
and 
manifests 
in
 forms
 as 
varied 
as
 bucolic
 photographs
 and
 live
 action
 cultivation.
 Vau
 has
 exhibited
 on
 numerous
 occasions
 at
 Contemporary
 Art 
Center, 
Vilnius. 
Recent
 exhibitions 
include Three 
Stories at 
Jonas
 Mekas 
Visual 
Arts Center,
Vilnius 
(2011) 
and Home 
Grown at 
Christine 
Koenig 
Gallery, 
Vienna 
(2014). 
Upcoming 
solo 
exhibition: Anime 
Mund, Max 
Lust 
Gallery, 
Vienna (April, 2015).

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