Subyugación Amorosa
By Andie Aylsworth
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This work presented for the show Not So Public Assembly made in association with the National Gallery Lodnon is a multi-faceted performance work on a hand-tufted rug that will act as the stage for the performance. The shape of a cut-down tree trunk that the rug takes is meant to evoke the colonial, imperialist undertones of the National Gallery’s collection, the European countries that are represented in it and their contribution to deforestation and extraction of other natural resources from indigenous cultures in North and South America. She will perform for a room of portraits in the Spain room of the National Gallery. Her use of craft-based art, in the form of tufting, comments on the lack of it represented in the gallery and the issues the art world has with seeing this primarily female based practice as ‘high art’ and shines a light on the shockingly low amount of women of artists represented in the collection.
About the Artist
Andie Aylsworth
Andie Aylsworth is a London-based multidisciplinary installation and performance artist. Aylsworth grew up in Miami, Florida, with her Ecuadorian mother, her English/Venezuelan father, and younger brother. She always valued the place of her childhood due to its metropolitan city settled between two of the most beautiful natural landscapes and always referred to it as her 'city of nature'. With the Everglades to the west and the Atlantic coast to the east she always felt a connection to the natural world and turned her focus to it in her art practice by looking at the coexistence between man and nature seen in indigenous cultures, especially her own as a descendent of the Quechua people of present-day Ecuador. She has exhibited work in multiple institutions across London and Miami including group shows at Tate Modern, the National Gallery, and ICA Miami with Young Artist Initiative. With the ongoing pandemic she is looking to reorient herself and her practice to focus more on the sustainability of the work she creates after being able to spend more time outdoors and reconnect with those environments