Following views: Tower of Babel no 20, 2023
by Anne Katrine Senstad
Medum: Plexiglas, transparent mirrors, Brass-hinges
Located on the exterior of Jamestown Art Center in dialogue with Towers of Babel no 01, 02, 07, 2020, located within the exhibition.
Tower of Babel no 20, 2023 - as part of the exhibition A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall - An Intersection of Art and Science - Curated by Lara Pan - Jamestown Art Center- April 21 - June 15, 2023. Sculpture as time indicator and color interaction in the public realm.
Babel no 20 is a new piece in the Tower of Babel series, started in 2020 - as part of my project How We Live Together started in 2018 consisting of a 4 film series in collaboration with acclaimed actor Bill Sage (Utpia, Monosis, Marginalities and , Xeniteia), the Towers of Babel sculpture series, sculpture-text works on capitalism and societal theory by French philosopher Roland Barthes on societal criticism, oppression and contemplations on ideorrhythmic living formats, as well as drawing on symbolism and psychology of The Tower of Babel narration, and Vladimir Tatlin's never-realized utopic-futuristic tower: Project for the Monument to the Third International, 1919-20.
This work is larger scale, almost double size, than the first multichromatic semi transparent fluorescent towers in the Babel series, and placed on the exterior platform space of Jamestown Art Center, in dialogue with the sun acting as sundial, or vessel harnessing natural light, the public sphere, weather, time and environment.
Medium: acrylics, utilitarian brass doorhinges, brass screws, washers, nuts and bolts.
As part of the exhibition A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall, curated by Lara Pan at Jamestown Art Center with exhibiting artists: Rafael Attias (Rhode Island), Mathew Emmett (United Kingdom), Carla Gannis (New York), Anita Glesta (Australia, New York), David Nez (Oregon), Olivier Perriquet (France), Anne Katrine Senstad (Norway, New York), Otavio Schipper (Brazil) Saša Spačal (Slovenia), Hana Usui (Japan, Austria), and Vargas-Suarez Universal (Kyrgyzstan, New York)
Towers of Babel no 01, 02, 07, 2020. Installation view, Jamestown Art Center. As part of the exhibition A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, curated by Lara Pan.
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