Dreyfoos School of the Arts Charity Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Dreyfoos School of the Arts Charity Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Luciana Abait
Bridge III
Lot Closed
February 28, 08:27 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 900 USD
Lot Details
Description
Luciana Abait
b. 1971
Bridge III
Executed in 2019.
Signed and dated
Archival pigment print on cotton paper with pencil and soft pastel
13 x 13 in.
Framed: 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.
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Donated by the Artist.
Luciana Abait was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is a resident artist at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. Her multimedia works deal with climate change and environmental fragility, and their impacts on immigration.
Bridge III (2019) belongs to the Iceberg Series. This work invites viewers to reimagine nature through psychological landscapes that conjure alternate (or perhaps future) realities marked by adaptation, assimilation, isolation, and displacement. Natural landscapes and human-made utilitarian objects or structures are twisted, scaled out of proportion, or impossibly adapted to new roles where they coexist in a magical reality. The icebergs represent the artist as a wanderer - shifting between oceans and continents. Mountains, in turn, are metaphors for the hurdles and obstacles she has had to climb along the way since she departed her native hometown in the 1990s.
Images are sourced from personal photographs, shots of snowfields and mountainsides, textbooks, encyclopedias, and stock imagery, connecting personal experience to a collective geographic history. Abait works over the surface with pencils and pastels, erasing the photographic quality beneath, and lending urgency to these emotionally charged images.