The Veil - Visible and Invisible Spaces
May 16th, 2008 by contributor
The veil is infinitely visual, yet it is also a means of concealment. The veil is itself mystery, even as it is the shroud that guards the mystery. Veiling is found everywhere and begins in Nature such as eclipses and the periodic shedding of animals outer bodily layer before re-growth (feathers, skin, fur, horn or cocoons). As much as the veil is fabric or a garment, the veil is also a concept. Veils can be illusion, divination, vanity, artifice, architecture, clothing, hair, deception, curtains, magic, alchemy and transformation, dream, euphemism and metaphor, depression, hallucination, masquerade, beauty, eloquent silence, holiness, birth, liberation, imprisonment. Veils are the ethers beyond consciousness, the hidden hundredth name of god, the final passage into death, even the biblical apocalypse the lifting of gods veil to signal the end times.
Visible and Invisible Spaces is an exhibition, opening Friday, May 16th, with work by 30 national and international contemporary artists. Each considers the many manifestations and interpretations of veiling, challenges stereotypes and puts the veil into cultural and historical context. The exhibit engages received wisdom about the veil and reflects on its ubiquity, profundity and importance throughout human history and imagination. Artists were asked to investigate the veil through personal experiences and/or within its broadest contexts.
The show addresses the sacred, sensual and socio-political aspects of the veil and features videographers, filmmakers and new media artists, as well as painters, sculptors, performance and installation artists from the U.S. (including Colorado), Europe, Central and South Asia and the Near and Middle East to investigate and re-vision the veil.
You can read more about he exhibit and artists by going to the Veil Website, from here you can view the history of each of these artists and their work.
The Veil - Visible and Invisible Spaces
When: May 16 - June 20; Gallery Talk - Wednesday, May 21st at 7 pm.
Where: 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO.
Contact: The Dairy Center For the Arts
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/may/01/cover-story-first-friday-and-beyond/
On June 14, Heath will moderate a panel discussion, “What is Hidden: Revelations of Veiled Communities,” addressing Colorado’s less visible populations, including the American Indian, African-American and immigrant communities.