VCA ART 2022

Adina Kraus

Honours

אהיה אשר אהיה


Alone in the field one day, the King of Nothingness came to me. He spoke of a giant void, a primordial ring of chaos, sharing secrets of what existed prior to existence. He showed me his crown, and invited me to peer inside it. To my amazement, inside the crown was hollow, within it resided No-thing.


My work lies in paradoxes of art processors and material dialogues, encountering a mystic and sacred space where things should not make sense, making love in war and war out of love. Embodying the ultimate coexistence.


I question borders, and ask what is the ultimate border crossing.


Investigating a motherland, acting as a relic, where the source and the soil connect. As an artist in diaspora, upon my return, do my rituals embody that of holy ceremony or demarcate territory?

bronze crown.
Adina Kraus, THE KING OF NOTHINGNESS, bronze, 2022.
Adina Kraus, sacred ground, terracotta carved tiles, 2022.
Adina Kraus, אהיה אשר אהיה - EHIYEH ASHER EHIYEH, brick detail, terracotta clay and copper material mergence, 2022.
Adina Kraus, ספר סופר סיפור - IN STORY SONG AND STONE, terracotta carved tiles, imported sand, 2022.
Adina Kraus, From Your Father's House to the Motherland, installation view and performance 'Lamentations, Affliction, Deliverance - Voyages to the Motherland', 2022. Documentation by Kenneth Suico.
Adina Kraus, Lamentations, Affliction, Deliverance. - Voyages to the Motherland, performance still, barbed wire, timber arches, mud bricks (gypsum, sand, mulch), imported sand, bronze, copper, terracotta, talit, red thread, 2022. Documentation by Devika Bilimoria.
Adina Kraus, Ciphered Oaths, engraved bronze, 2022.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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