Janet Bellotto’s solo exhibition Salted Edges: #islandparadise at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery (09/11/2023)
Artist Janet Bellotto has spent over a decade studying islands as both geography and metaphor. The story of Atlantis, and thus the great deluge, has been significant for the artist, especially now, when 'the world that drowned' becomes an ever more plausible story. According to Bellotto, water flows through her practice. For this exhibition, she explores “the edge between land and sea.” Salted Edges is a departure point for investigating the current climate crisis to understand the vulnerability of our planet. #islandparadise is not selling dream vacations; it juxtaposes today’s tweeted and tagged travel log with the reality of isolation, survival, and hope. In this exhibition, the islands act as a microcosm of the world, whereas water, as is often the case in Bellotto’s work, is both memory and metaphor, as ungraspable as the future that threatens to submerge us. The exhibition took place at the gallery’s project space between November 9 – 26, 2023.
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Image: Janet Bellotto, Relation-Ships (Existence Doubtful) (detail), 2016. Archival digital backlit print, 110 x 485 cm