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oapen-20.500.12657-256132022-07-21T07:50:53Z Preternatural Jeffery, Celina Bryant, Levi S. metaphysics nature supernatural exhibition catalog bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGC Exhibition catalogues & specific collections The preternatural, as explored by these artists, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics. They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable and mineral; living and dead. The confusion between animate and inanimate is a primary concern, a surreality which unites with the preternatural’s love for reveling in the mysterious: bizarre fragments, unreadable words, objects of absurd scale, and distortions of the relativity of time and space flourish throughout this exhibition. Preternatural is the catalogue for a multi-site art exhibition (9 December 2011 through 17 February 2012, in Ottawa, Canada) that draws from the idea that art itself is a form of preternatural pursuit, in which the artists participating explore the bewildering condition of being in between the mundane and the marvelous in nature. It questions a world that understands itself as accessible, reachable, and ‘knowable’ and counters it with a consideration of this heterogenous proposition. 2019-03-23 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:44:45Z 2020-04-01T10:44:45Z 2011 book 1004482 OCN: 945782702 9781105245022 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25613 eng application/pdf n/a 1004482.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0001.1.00 10.21983/P3.0001.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781105245022 ScholarLed 38 open access
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The preternatural, as explored by these artists, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics. They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable and mineral; living and dead. The confusion between animate and inanimate is a primary concern, a surreality which unites with the preternatural’s love for reveling in the mysterious: bizarre fragments, unreadable words, objects of absurd scale, and distortions of the relativity of time and space flourish throughout this exhibition. Preternatural is the catalogue for a multi-site art exhibition (9 December 2011 through 17 February 2012, in Ottawa, Canada) that draws from the idea that art itself is a form of preternatural pursuit, in which the artists participating explore the bewildering condition of being in between the mundane and the marvelous in nature. It questions a world that understands itself as accessible, reachable, and ‘knowable’ and counters it with a consideration of this heterogenous proposition.
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