KATIE WEST ‘Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology’ at The Block Museum of Art, Chicago EXPO

April 16, 2024

An installation by Katie West is currently being featured in the traveling exhibition ‘Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology’ at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, in Illinois as part of EXPO Chicago until 07.07.2024. The group show presents the work of eighteen artists and collectives who foreground reciprocity and exchange in their work by sharing participatory interventions, healing practices, ecology, science, and ancient beliefs. The artists create space for honoring ancestors, the significance of Indigenous knowledges, and engage in fantastical speculation through science-fiction and organic, digital, and spiritual network sciences. The exhibition has been curated by Sharmila Wood and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.

Katie West is an artist and Yindjibarndi woman based on Noongar Ballardong Country, working across installation, textiles and social practice. The process and connectedness of creating naturally dyed fabric underpins her practice, including the rhythm of walking, gathering, bundling, boiling water and infusing materials with plant matter. Using found and naturally dyed textiles, video, and sound, West creates installations and happenings that invite attention to the ways we weave our stories, places, histories, and futures together.

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