St Sara Kali George
Delaine Le Bas
Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix, London
- Title
- St Sara Kali George
- Gallery
- Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix, London
- Year
- 2020
- Duration
- 10 min 4 s
- Format & Technical
Single channel video with stereo sound
- A film by Laszlo Farkas & Delaine Le Bas. Filmed by Lincoln Cato & Delaine Le Bas. Soundscape by Justin Langlands. With additional vocals by Raja Bhopa. Courtesy
St Sara Kali George is a figure created and enacted by a transdisciplinary artist Delaine Le Bas. Sexually non-defined, it is a hybrid of St George and Sara Kali, two warrior patron saints of Roma people, the former also a patron saint of England and the latter, often portrayed as Black Madonna and revered from India to France.
Landing from ashore, Sara Kali George wanders about, discovers in dismay and in rage, the current devastating conditions of environment, resulting from abuse the society has been inflicting on the mother Earth. Image of washed-up Sara Kali George landing on a beach, may also strike with its uncanny similarities of that of desperate refugees trying to approach the English coast in ad-hoc sailing gears.
The fable, a commentary on England and its state of affairs can also serve as a mirror for anybody and any current society across globe.
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Delaine Le Bas
1965
Delaine Le Bas’s oeuvre addresses various aspects of life, from political and social to private, seen through her personal perspective and experience, using mixed media installation, textile based works, performance, paintings, literature and videos. While viewpoint of Romani community to which she belongs may have served as source of inspiration, ultimate issues encompassed goes far beyond, making her works increasing relevant to contemporary life in general.
Le Bas exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad. Participation in international events include Roma Pavilion Venice Biennale (2007, 2019), Prague Biennale (2007). Berlin Biennale (2020), Harbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin (2019, 2017), ANTI Athens Biennale (2018), Gwangju Biennale (2011), National Gallery Zimbabwe (2014). Solo exhibitions include Secession, Vienna (2023), ‘House of Le Bas’ Whitechapel Gallery, London, (2023) ‘Beware of Linguistic Engineering’, Maxim Gorki Theater (2022), ‘St Sara Kali George’, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery (2021). Created a commissioned work for Tate Liverpool (2022).
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Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix
- Address
- 19 Goulston Street, E1 7, London, United Kingdom
- Phone
- +442072471167
- keiko@yamamotokeiko.com
- Website
- www.yamamotokeiko.com
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix exhibits artworks from the West and the East, mainly of emerging and midcareer artists whose artistic researches center around light, space, and ambiguity of reality, time and that of identity.
The Gallery embraces a wide range of media and materials as vehicles of expressions for these themes, including new media such as electronics, video or sound installations and performances while maintaining the strong links with the traditional art forms of drawing, painting, photographs and sculpture.
It aims to explore broad perspectives hosting the exhibitions curated by independent curators in addition to presenting the Gallery’s own curating. It exhibits works of artists working in the UK, Europe and elsewhere, and a special focus will be placed on introducing artists from Japan and other Asian countries less known to the London art scene.