Amala GROOM
The Proposal, 2022 (production still)
single-channel video, 4K UHD video, colour, sound dimensions variable
11:11 mins
Edition of 5 + 1AP
image courtesy of the artist

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Autobiographical in nature, The Proposal (2022) follows her earlier work, The Union (2019) as the second of a five-part series ‘Raised by Wolves’. For Groom, this iterative project explores the relationship between alchemy (looking up into spirit) and science (looking down into matter).

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With multiple meanings across languages, cultures, histories and philosophical principles The Proposal uses the wedding ritual as a metaphor for a marriage between the lower forces of material culture and the higher forces of the spirit world with the human suspended as a construct between both forces.

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For information - https://amalagroom.com/The-Proposal

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