“Rise of the Tidal Island Queens” presented by Artz

“The XR work “Rise of the Tidal Island Queens” initially developed during a digital residency with Agora Digital Art, a London based organization that advocates the work of women and non – binary artists. The project took inspiration from a series of performative self-portraits that the artist took at age 50 and the myth of Aphrodite’s violent birth; how the goddess of Love and Fertility was born a grown woman shaped form the white foam of the sea. Adding narrative from the “surreal artist Ithell Colquhoun with her vision of divine femininity, in which the woman becomes a landscape and merges with earth an entity alive inhabited by spirits. The audio part is a virtual continuation of Frigga Hauge’s “memory work” and built upon anonymously collected written and oral reflections of middle-aged women and how they feel in their body and mind. “In this metaphor, the work question’s themes related to mature women such as ageism, body confidence, and criticism of the eternal youthful representation of the female body. The clash between the two players: the body and the mind” (MiMi, Agora Digital Art). “