Catalogue de l'exposition éponyme d'Alexandra Grant à la galerie carlier | gebauer, Berlin, de novembre 2024 à janvier 2025, sous la forme de 6 posters et d'un livret dans un étui.
Everything Belongs to the Cosmos is an installation of painted works by Los Angeles and Berlin-based painter Alexandra Grant based on texts by Polish writers and poets Anna Adamowicz, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Julia Fiedorczuk, Bianka Rolando, Olga Tokarczuk, and Urszula Zajączkowska. The six participating writers and poets were chosen and commissioned in 2021 and early 2022 with the assistance of Marcin Orliński and the contributed work was translated from Polish into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
The Polish writers and poets featured in Grant's painted Cosmos span generations and levels of recognition, with Tokarczuk the winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature and are meant to highlight the current writing scene in Poland as each interprets an aspect of the cosmos. Taking each writer's text as a cue, Grant created one large-scale painting based on each text in English, each on paper and at a scale of 3.9 meter tall and 3 meter wide or larger, the largest works she has ever created. The installation of the six paintings is meant to create a chapel space—and quite literally a cosmos—for and of women's voices.
This catalog includes 6 fold-out posters featuring the painted works and a booklet with an introduction by Marcin Orliński and the contributed poems both in Polish and English.
Alexandra Grant (née en 1973 à Fairview Park, Ohio, vit et travaille à Los Angeles) est une artiste américaine qui emploie la langue, la littérature et les collaborations avec les écrivains comme base pour ses peintures, dessins, sculptures et photographies. Elle est la cofondatrice, avec son compagnon Keanu Reeves, de X Artists' Books.
