Eve's Eden: Julia Vogl & Gabriella Willenz | Opening Reception
Join us for the opening of EVE’S EDEN!
Step into the Doug Adams Gallery and experience the Garden of Eden a new way – from Eve’s perspective. In EVE’S EDEN, Julia Vogl and Gabriella Willenz have created an innovative, immersive environment that allows visitors to critically explore this fundamental story that lies at the root of patriarchy. Walking through this interdisciplinary exhibition, including video, audio, print, and sculpture, Gallery visitors will have the opportunity to taste the “unforbidden fruit,” leaving with new knowledge.
We meet Eve in the short film written by Anita Diamant, author of international bestseller The Red Tent (1997). Eve, played by award-winning Palestinian-Israeli actress Mira Awad, tells us what really happened in the Garden of Eden. In a clever and heartfelt narrative, she challenges age-old stereotypes and pushes us to re-consider our own assumptions.
An innovative audio component allows visitors to hear about the Eden story from diverse voices and multiple interpretations; another gives insight into a speculative couples’ therapy session featuring modern-day Eve and Adam. A green screen zone allows Gallery visitors to "step into the garden” and become part of the story.
Julia Vogl is an American and British artist, known for public art installations that engage the community in shaping architectural space through visualizations of personal information and stories. She has received multiple awards from the American for the Arts Public Art in Review. She currently teaches fine art at the Winchester School of Art at Southampton University, UK.
Gabriella Willenz is an American-Israeli interdisciplinary artist. Her background in theater and film allows her to create uncanny interventions and re-staging, focusing on deconstructing hegemonic structures such as nationalism, militarism, and patriarchy. She probes the construction of knowledge and how we know and relate to the world around us. She has been awarded multiple grants, prizes, and artist’s residencies.
EVE’S EDEN is supported in part by Southampton University, Winchester School of Art (UK), the Alameda County Arts Council, and Meyer Sound.
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