DOMOBAAL

A Wind Of Revolution Blows, The Storm Is On The Horizon

Exterior View of Sharon Kivland's solo exhibition at Chelsea Space, November/December 2008

The phrase 'A Wind Of Revolution Blows, The Storm Is On The Horizon' that lends this body of work its title comes from Alexis de Tocqueville, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, shortly before the outbreak of revolution across Europe in 1848. Karl Marx, in The Eighteenth Brumaire, responding to the events and effects of 1848, writes: 'Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past'. The works here, despite their gentle air of refinement, reflect relays between nature, humanity, violence, and sexuality.