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Earthseed: Julie Curtiss, Loie Hollowell, Marguerite Humeau

Earthseed

Julie Curtiss, Loie Hollowell, Marguerite Humeau

18 October 2022 – 21 January 2023

Dates

18 October 2022 – 21 January 2023

Location

White Cube Paris

10 avenue Matignon
75008 Paris

Curated by Susanna Greeves

The dystopian world created by influential science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947−2006) in her prescient Parables novels opens in 2024 in an America devastated by climate change and corporate greed, where a Christian-fundamentalist brand of fascism is taking hold. ‘Earthseed’ is both how the central character, Olamina, refers to all human beings, and the name that she gives the movement she founds amidst the ruins of civilisation. Earthseed is a matriarchal cult, a philosophy and a manual for survival: ‘God is Change’, Olamina pronounces, and it is only through malleability and adaptability that we can take control of that inexorable change and resist chaos and victimhood. Humans – Earthseed − contain the potential to escape our self-engineered destruction and instead ‘take root among the stars’. The works in this exhibition resonate with the notion of travel to outer space and inner space, in different ways considering the female body as a site of transformation as well as a portal for the imagination.


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In Focus: Earthseed

Join Thaïs Hourbette, White Cube’s Head of Gallery and Sales Operations in Paris, as she takes us through ‘Earthseed’, an exhibition exploring the transformative potential of the female body.


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