Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1989, @antoniaphoebebrown is based between Cape Town and Brussels. In her practice she uses distortion as a device, to find a position of interembodiment or inhabitation. « The artist turns her gaze and research to the movement and transfer of plants as intended acts of dislocation to ask how plants have been sought out across cultural history in search of healing, fertility or intoxication. Here, plants are approached as both containers and surrogates for certain histories; in this process, material webs emerge between these containers. For the exhibition, she produces a version of absinthe where she replaces artemisia absinthium with artemisia afra, its Southern African counterpart. Through this act of re-appropriation, she intervenes with a European technique used in the 18th century. In the same way that Chloe Royer dyes fabrics with natural decoctions of various plant elements and fruits, Antonia Brown soaks textiles with liquids prepared from borage, onions, oxides, sands, copper and metal, in reference to the body’s temperaments. She evokes “humoral complexions” that derive from medieval me- dicine to redraw a memory of a body that has undergone history alterations. The suspended vulva-like silk pieces and the semi-transparent domes of Moonflowers are offered to the contemplation of the spectators from the functional sculptures of Chloé Royer. She thus solicits a physical encounter with new bodies that she tends to tame. » Text by @camillevelluet translated by @sarahlolley RAMA DA SASA SAY SO AND, with Antonia Brown & @chloe_royer To be seen until Sunday August 28 Open every day @fitzpatrick_gallery 123 rue de Turenne, Paris Closing event Sunday August 28 from 7pm To request a preview or the press release please MP Exhibition views by @objets_pointus Artist portrait by @sslaventiy —— Antonia is also showing in Art-o-rama with @southwaystudio this week ! Go and see :)