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CO-Lapses
On exhibition at the Arte Laguna Prize
Finalist Exhibition 18th Edition
Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
November 16 – December 8, 2024
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Karma Barnes's installation 'Co-Lapses' has been selected as one of the 240 finalists' works in the Arte Laguna Prize amongst 20,000 international entrants. The large-scale 2024 iteration of the durational installation is on exhibition at the Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
from 16 November to 8 December 2024.
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Landmark Acquisition: Karma Barnes'
Climatic Artworks join the
NMSU Art Museum Collection
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New Mexico State University Art Museum
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA.
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RELATIVE TERRAINS 2023
Lismore Regional Offsite Gallery
Hosted by Grafton Regional Gallery
16 Sept - 12 Nov 2023
Karma Barnes and Robért Franken
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The Relative Terrains exhibition was scheduled for January 2023 at the Lismore Regional Gallery but with the heartbreaking damage to the gallery during the devastating floods earlier this year the Grafton Regional Gallery has snapped up the opportunity to house the show along with a number of other displaced exhibitions.
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Relative Terrains maps the dramatic shifts in our environmental cycles and how this informs our internal and external experiences. The work traverses the geological terrain and volcanic landscapes of the Northern Rivers and explores how we, the inhabitants of the land, form and change with the forces of the elements, time and life experiences. The exhibition artworks will include a series of large-scale installations and suspended paintings produced in a range of mediums including local pigments.
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Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
Exhibition 16 September – 12 November 2023
Public Program 17 August Lismore Regional Gallery
Public Program 7 October Grafton Regional Gallery
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WILD PIGMENT PROJECT
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curated by Tilke Elkins
New Mexico State University Art Museum,
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA 2023
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Form & Concept, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, USA 2022.
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Our human experience is composed of compounded responses. The artwork draws parallels between our relationships with each other and our connection to place. Compounded Caldera is a moment in time where bush fires, droughts, floods and an ongoing pandemic have ravaged our community in Northern New South Wales, Australia with little moment to exhale a breath before the next pressing moments of concerns take centre stage. The impacts of climate change have moved from subtle shifts and perturbations towards more obvious and compounding climatic events.
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Form & Concept,
September 17 to December 23, 2022
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NMSU Art Museum
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
June 22-September 16, 2023.
Tocca La Terra
Imagine the Land Project
MACRO Asilo
Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy.
The Environmental and Participatory Art Installation Projects recent colossal size works from soils and pigments of Rome at the MACRO Asilo, Contemporary Art Gallery of Rome, Italy.
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Imagine the Land Project collaborators Karma Barnes and Ekarasa Doblanovich were invited by curator Giorgio de Finis to exhibit their installation Tocca La Terra as part of the MACRO Asilo (“Hospitable Museum”) Project. Tocca la Terra (Touch the Earth). The work was created in collaboration with viewers at the MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy.
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Tocca la Terra was composed from Italian local soils, hand-gathered by Barnes and Doblanovic from the regional landscapes of Rome and Tuscany. These soils were ground by the artists into fine pigments and transformed into a 18m long art installation, filling one of the MACRO exhibition halls.
