MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, part 2: exhibition
Until Sunday 13 March (extended), Flemish artist Sarah Carlier (1981) exhibits in Noorderlicht Studio with the exhibition ‘MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR’ . In her photographs and video installations she explores the role of art in everyday life. What makes something art? And what does society gain from it?
In the spring of 2021, Carlier was the first artist in residence in the Noorderlicht Studio. Using it as a base, she turned the city into her studio; collecting objects and stories, making interventions in the public space, approaching Groningers who are creatively active themselves and asking them to lend her their work. Carlier’s criterion was that these works of art were ‘made from an intrinsic need to create, and not from a desire to be an artist’.
This flexible attitude inherent in creativity – breaking free from one’s own conceptions, being able to see everyday things in a new light – is precisely what Carlier’s artistic practice is about. All her ‘studies’, art finds, and new work inspired by this will be brought together in a playful mix in ‘MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR’. Carlier challenges the viewer to look differently at their immediate surroundings, at the world and at art.
thanks to:
Afvalbas, Ineke Schutte-Hoogstraten, Aletta van den Berg, Nick Landman, Annemarie Waijer, Antje Wagenaar, Bonja Bolhuis-Westerdiep, Catharina Hartman, Corian Linnemans, Frans Giesen, Harma Zant, Harriet Klompe, Hennie Mulder, Jos Dijksterhuis, Karl Huisman, Mieke Bartels-Koene, Roelof Donker, Robert, Sikke Bart Frieling, Tirna Deb, Trudy Dehue and Wies Bouma
>> here’s more about MUDDY PINK DINOSAUR, part 1: residency