October 1917
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4k video, color, silent, 3 min 7 sec loopCommonwealth and Council
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This minimalist artwork features stark black-and-white contrasts, with the text "Not brain, heart." and "Project is alway not see" handwritten in a bold, expressive font against a dark background. The simplicity of the design and the emotive, thought-provoking text suggest a conceptual approach that challenges the viewer to ponder the relationship between intellect and emotion, as well as the notion of unseen or obscured projects or intentions. The artist's intention seems to be to provoke deeper reflection on the complexities of the human experience and the role of the heart and mind in creative or intellectual pursuits. ...

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The Pow'r of Life is Love
Artist
Mariah Garnett
B.1980, American

Mariah Garnett is principally a moving-image artist, but she also works with watercolours and installation. Labelling herself as an 'experimental documentary filmmaker', Garnett's pieces examine inter-generational relationships, queerness, and cultural mythologies. Garnett creatively rejects any pretence of objectivity by rooting her films in her own subjectivity. Weaving archival footage together with hazy memories and re-enactment, Garnett unravels stable formats of storytelling, with each work revelling in multiple potential truths. Often inserting herself as performer in these moving-image studies, Garnett further investigates her positionality as a queer filmmaker and that particular lineage of artmaking. Discussing the tangential, explorative quality of her methodology, Garnett explains that “I often start with one idea and then as always, it sort of fractures and spirals out from the original thing I’m interested in”. This “spiralling” that Garnett describes affords each piece with deeply personal kernels, whilst the films expand to situate this starting point within the wider context of the contemporary political and ideological landscape. Outside of moving image, Garnett's delicate and observant watercolours tenderly bring domestic scenes into being. ...

Mariah Garnett: Artworks
The Pow'r of Life is Love
Mariah Garnett
The Pow'r of Life is Love, 2021
April 19, 1914
October 1917
The Psychic is You
Mariah Garnett
The Psychic is You, 2021
76.2 x 55.88cm
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Mariah Garnett
The Emotional Lives of Animals, 2021
76.2 x 55.88cm
Acting is Believing
Mariah Garnett
Acting is Believing, 2021
76.2 x 55.88cm
Queen of the Night
Mariah Garnett
Queen of the Night, 2021
76.2 x 55.88cm
Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...

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