TAIPEI CITY-The garden has been a realm of imaginative speculation and potential for generations of artists. In her Taipei Dangdai debut with Hashimoto Contemporary titled Sing a Lovely Flower, painter Bianca Nemelc builds on a legacy of progressive thinkers, melding art historical references from the tropics with familial narratives to create a garden that transcends the confines of reality, where humans and nonhumans merge seamlessly. Rendered in vibrant colors and elegant brush strokes, these acrylic on canvas paintings cast Brown women as formidable mountains and fierce Jaguars. In an installation designed specifically for Nemelc's new works, these lush new works compel us to reassess anthropocentric worldviews and how our perceptions of women are tangled with our conceptions of nature, manifesting a space as heterogeneous and blended as the world in her mind's eye.
Recalling Nemelc's culturally diverse neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City, the series weaves personal anecdotes and intimate memories into broader inquiries about life experiences and the treatment of marginalized bodies. In Sun Catcher, a towering Brown figure seems to rotate within the canvas, a visual and narrative reference from the Brazilian Modernist painter Tarsila do Amaral's iconic work Abaporu, where the figure's disproportionate, pear-like limbs are used to devour flesh. Nemelc's twirling figure consumes the sun-she is more powerful than the fiery being that bestows life. In TITLE, the artist depicts Brown bodies playfully twisting and dancing inside the petals of a flower embodying the sweetness of the fruits produced by the plant. By emphasizing the symbiotic relationship between the plants and the agile figures, these pieces subvert the notion of a flower as an object to be possessed or exploited; instead, the artworks offer a mode of resistance against fetishistic depictions of both land and women from the tropics. These women who embody the land remain anonymous and distant from the viewer, forming part of Nemelc's visual narrative of beauty and resistance-a sanctuary within this untamed garden for herself and others.
About this new work the artist writes, "Much like humans, flowers migrate and adapt, sometimes by design and other times because of external forces. Some are exotic, others labeled invasive when they become part of the natural landscape. The garden is the beginning of creating a space where all things coexist in the same way that they do in my head - mixing identities, memories with imagination and having all worlds come together."
Please join us at booth DG08 at Taipei Dangdai, on view to the public from Friday May 10th - Sunday May 12th. For more information, additional images, or exclusive content, please email dasha@hashimotocontemporary.com
台北--花園對於藝術家來說一直是個充斥著想像裡與潛力的地方。畫家比安卡· 內梅克 Bianca Nemelc個展「唱一朵美麗的花 Sing a Lovely Flower」將與Hashimoto Contemporary在2024台北當代藝術博覽會中展出。 內梅克的花園跨越現實。以世代的先進思想家為基礎， 探討⻄方藝術歷史對於熱帶地區的敘述與家人間相傳的故事以塑造一個人與非人緊密相融的世界。她 用豔麗的色彩及柔和的筆觸將棕色人種女性描繪成為崇敬的山脈和俊勇的美洲⻁。此系列新作重新探 討人類中心論的世界觀並討論我們為何將看待女性的視⻆和自然概念相互糾纏。展廳為此量身打造以 呈現畫家眼中一個豐富多彩而交融的世界。
回顧內梅克在紐約華盛頓高地文化多元的街區，此次展出的系列作品融合她的個人軼事和回憶去更加 廣泛的探究日常生活及邊緣化群體的待遇現狀。在Sun Catcher中，一個棕色皮膚的高聳人像順著畫布 旋轉扭曲。此視覺和敘事手法參考了巴⻄現代主義畫家塔⻄拉· 多· 阿馬拉爾 (Tarsila do Amaral)的著 名作品Abarporú，其人物的支臂形狀如梨一般跳脫現實比例吞噬著肉體。內梅克畫中轉旋的身體吞沒 了太陽--比賦予生命的火焰更加強大。在她的另一幅畫作中，棕膚色的身體在一朵花中嬉戲的旋轉跳 躍猶如植物結果的甜美。透過強調植物與人類之間的共生關係，這些畫作顛覆了花朵作為物體之被擁 有和利用的常態;相反，作品提出的視⻆不同於⻄方藝術歷史上對於熱帶地區女性與土地關係的迷戀 陳述。這些象徵土地的女性保持匿名而遠離觀眾，建構了內梅克美與堅韌視覺敘事的一⻆ -- 一座為了 自身與他人座落在原始花園的庇護所。
關於此次新作，畫家陳述到:「如人類一般，花朵會遷徙，會適應，時而出於自身天性，又有時受外 力所迫。當它們成為自然土地的一部份，一些被視為外來物，另外一些則被貼上入侵性的標籤。花園 是創造萬物共存空間的起始點，如同它們在我腦海中的存在--混合的身份、記憶與想像交融使所有世 界匯聚在一起。」
誠摯邀請您參與我們在台北當代藝術博覽會的DG08展位。該展區展覽期間為5月10日星期五至5月12 日星期日。如需了解更多展覽資訊、圖片或是獨家內容，請於電子郵件與我們聯絡， dasha@hashimotocontemporary.com。