eX de Medici: DOUBLE CROSSED
May 6 - May 30
eX de Medici, Verdigris. Watercolour, body colour (white), gold leaf on paper, 114 x 127cm. Courtesy: the artist and Beaver Galleries, Canberra.
eX de Medici’s extraordinary work gravitates around concepts of power through violence via geo economic politics and environment Working from her studio in Canberra, eX presents a new series of detailed watercolours of hybridised moths and weaponry. These intriguing and powerful works are inspired by the field work of
Dr Marianne Horak in New Guinea in 1973, where she collected micro moths, many of which remain unclassified. The juxtaposition of weapons with these images of natural beauty continues eX’s study into the divide between two sciences. As she explains, “one examining the deep time of the evolution of life on our planet, the other of the accelerated brief development of that which takes life from the planet”. This exhibition runs alongside that of artist friend and collaborat