SARAH HARDESTY
Visual Artist
Exhibited:
Together We are Strong
On participating in Vagina Festival 2007:
I am glad to be participating in this event to support awareness for peace
and non-violence-for women and for all of creation.
About Sarah Hardesty:
"Everything is connected"-a statement commonly used today. Although I think this bears much spiritual and tangible truth (with communication technology enhancing this notion), it appears there is an overwhelming amount of disconnect in our world. Fear, safety, control and convenience all play a large role in the separateness that exists. This encompasses individual, communal and societal relationships. You could say some people are living in a bubble.
I address these ideas by investigating boundaries, separation, isolation, and solitude with drawings, installations, and mixed-media works. Currently, I use the body, its absence and presence, as a generative source of investigating connectedness/disconnectedness. Skin, membranes, chi, auras, molecular structures, are elements I use to imply barriers and containment. I interpret the objects we interact with and use in our daily lives as signifiers of escape and concealment that can be utilized to avert our connection with ourselves and others. I create a space that asks the viewer to be released from the constructs of their daily life. Ideally conjuring notions of hope and freedom and inspiring thoughts of growth and openness.
Contact: sarah@sarahhardesty.com, 857-225-1258.
Website:
sarahhardesty.com
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VAGINA FESTIVAL 2007
took place on FEB. 16-18
at
AGNI GALLERY, NYC
Proceeds were donated to V-Day. We were honored to present two performances of The Vagina Monologues.
About Vagina Festival 2007 >
View the 2007 Program >
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN >
At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions.
V-Day's 2007 theme Reclaiming Peace seeks to make the connection between the worldwide anti-violence work of V-Day activists with our collective desire for peace and an end to armed conflicts. “We are saying that if a government supports the use of force, weapons, violence as a method of control and dominance, this models and gives license to the same kind of behavior at home,” stated V-Day Founder/Artistic Director Eve Ensler.
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