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