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Continental Drift
Catalogue Number: 1
Title: Continental Drift, from the Exodus series
Artists: Marian Shapiro
Dimensions: 50cm diameter x 5cm deep
Materials: Recycled mosaic, marble, hoop, metal
Series Statement:
The Exodus series is inspired by the refugee crisis. In many ways the current plight of refuges has been eclipsed in the public consciousness by the pandemic, but the issue is both ancient and ongoing.
The work springs from a conjunction of the personal and the political. The visual point of departure is multi-faceted. Inspired by old maps with their tears and discolourations, the maps at the back of in-flight magazines and the migration patterns of both birds and humans. The works explore humans caught up in events they can’t control, flight, movement, connections and rupture.
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