Janine Antoni at Luhring Augustine
March 20 - April 25, 2015 Janine Antoni’s From the Vow Made at Luhring Augustine NY. Border Crossings looks back to Issue 113 and its interview with the artist.
“I was very cavalier because I’m a tightrope walker and have good balance. I thought it will be great to be so high, but when I actually got out there, the wind was terrifying. It was fine when I was on one side of the building because the gusts were throwing me into the building, but on the other side they were pushing me away from it. There was one moment when the wind was so strong I went down to my knees[…] I got to live out all the fantasies I rolled into this work. The wind blew my hair into a beard and that opened up a whole new set of readings. For one, I became part pirate or lion. The griffin is itself a hybrid of a lion and a bird. I also became half man and half woman.” —Janine Antoni on executing the performance and photography of Conduit, from Border Crossings Issue 113
Read more of the interview here.
Purchase the issue here.
Inhabit, 1009, digital c-print, 116-1/2 x 72”. Coutesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
From Luhring Augustine’s press release for From the Vow Made:
“Throw back your head and sip from the bowl of your own breast. Wear your mother’s pelvic bones as a collar. Become a snake, intertwining your spine with another and crawl across a woven rug. Let your head melt through your lover’s chest and listen for their heart. Embrace someone so fully that your ribs weave to become one.
From the Vow Made is a solo exhibition by Janine Antoni presented at Luhring Augustine. The show includes a collection of seven sculptural works and a video collaboration with choreographer Stephen Petronio.
For the past seven years, Antoni has turned to dance and movement for her inspiration. She has engaged in several somatic movement practices to further her exploration into what it means to live from an embodied place. These new works emerge from her somatic revelations and her study of milagros, sculptural votive offerings used in latin cultures. Ranging from body parts to domestic objects, milagros are often hung in churches as symbols of things in life requiring prayer, healing and protection. Antoni’s milagros are prayers for embodiment.”
