Chasing Rainbows Catalogue
WHERE ANGELS LIVE by Kathy Battista
“ It’s kind of the magic and curse of being human. We exist in language, in the symbolic, and as such, we can’t escape living in narratives. Charlotte Colbert is a storyteller who crafts visual fairy tales by creating fanciful creatures that shrink or grow in scale. Often focusing on a single bodily element—an eye, a breast, a uterus—Colbert transforms it into a benign embodiment of that anatomical feature. These have taken various forms: a fountain of breasts that becomes a manifestation of a female post-human creature; a blue eye with exaggerated eyelashes transmogrified into various forms, including a protective amulet; a uterus that is almost floral in its iteration and exists in glass, ceramic, and neon. Across the artist’s projects in a variety of media, playfulness is paramount. While her work addresses serious topics—the autonomy of female and trans bodies, the importance of hope in a time of division, the power of belief in healing—Colbert does so without censure or didacticism. … “
A Book with contributions by Nicoletta Lambertucci, Katie Tobin, Gabriella Nugent, Ruth Millington, Lee Sharrock, Jareh Das, Kathy Battista, Lavinia Filippi, and Helen Barrett
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