PHILOMÈNE AMOUGOU
Press: The Earth Issue: 'Change Makers Interview' 2021
8 Questions: Philomène Amougou, Environmental Artist & Activist
The Earth Change Makers, Interview 2021
"In celebration of Earth Day 2021, and to mark the launch of The Earth Issue Agency, we are honoured to shine the light on 12 young activists, change makers and forward-thinkers who are paving the way for a better tomorrow. Our selected candidates range from emerging artists to youth politicians to climate activists, community initiators and social-impact entrepreneurs. In common, they share a mission to spark positive change within their spheres of work, and have put their visions to action through meaningful initiatives. This interview captures an unique conversation about the role of intersectionality within sustainability activism. An intersectional framework recognizes that people and the planet are intrinsically linked, and that representation, racial justice, gender equality, accessibility, and the fight against various modes of socio-economic oppression are crucial to any discussion about the environment" The Earth Issue Agency.
To what extent do you see your artistic work as activism?
P.A.: I never thought of myself as being an Activist, Nevertheless I recently started to embody that concept when I realised that my work was standing for justice, Awareness, with a strong participation in ‘Global Awakening’ and a desire to make a change in society towards a greater harmony. From that, I see my work as an extent of Environmental Artivism, a movement that draws an intersection between Art, Activism and Environmental concern. It is art as reform, a Statement that reflects a climate of tension between natural Beauty and ‘Dystopian Social Cacophony’ to serve with meaning and intention, engage and create opportunities for new reflections. - Philomène
8 Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris
Ongoing Exhibition: The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, 17th April - 16th May 2021
On View: The Origin of The Black Sap, Performance & Art Film (2021)
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© Philomène, The Origin Of The Black Sap, Multimedia Art Video (2021)
RUTTKOWSKI;68 is pleased to present The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, a themed exhibition inspired by Hokusai’s legendary orgy scene of the same title, which features a pearl diver being penetrated by an octopus and his offspring. The frenzied evolutionary reunion of man and mollusc is here symbolically explored by 22 international artists, ranging from historical modernists to well-known contemporary & emerging talents.
Artists: Hans Bellmer, Kitty Brophy, Robert Crumb, Sante D’Orazio, Jårg Geismar, Kent Monkman, Marieli Fröhlich, Matthew Collings, Robert Hawkins, Bjarne Melgaard, Pierre Molinier, Carlos Pazos, Vilte Fuller, Philomène Amougou, Lily Lewis, Sophy Rickett, Larry Rivers, Marie Sauvage, Penny Slinger, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Cicciolina Ilona Staller.
39 Dover St, Mayfair, London W1S 4NN
On View: 'Chrysalis' (2020) Thursday July 9th – Sunday August 29th 2020
Digital Private View/Performance: July 11th, 6-6.30 PM (BST)
© Chrysalis (2020), Philomène & Roded,16mm performance photographs.
'We are pleased to announce that the guest panel of Andrew Renton (collector and curator), Kirsty Ogg (director of Bloomberg New Contemporaries), and Tabish Khan (art critic) have nominated Philomène Amougou and Camille Roded as the winners of the Spring/Summer 2020 Window Project.For the Window Project, the London-based artist duo present their 16mm photographic stills ‘Chrysalis’. These works play on the direct participatory relationship between filmmaker and performer, through a macroscopic observation of a floating body; free of perspective and in an embryonic state reminiscing on the struggle of confinement.' Article added 30.06.2020 Gazelli Art House.
'The Top 5 exhibitions to see this Summer'
'A body is curled up and appears to be floating as we see a ‘birth’ take place across the windows of this Mayfair gallery. It’s a beautiful series of works that may be seen by all who walk by the gallery. The window project is a great opportunity to engage with those who may not step inside galleries and I was privileged to be part of this year’s judging panel for selecting this work.' Tabish Khan, London Art Critic - Art Reviews, Fad Magazine. Selected Exhibitions includes © ‘Chrysalis’ (2020), 16mm Performance photographs, by Philomène Amougou at Gazelli Art House, London - Highlited alongside ‘Rembrandt to Richter’ Sotheby’s; Santiago Parra ‘Upheaval’ JD Malat Gallery, ‘Masculinities: Liberation through Photography’ Barbican Art Gallery
Exhibition 'Solstice : Create Art for Earth'
Curated by Judy Chicago
On View: June 20 - July 12, 2020
© 'Transcendental Resurrection' Performance, installation and photography by Philomène, Uk
In the "Solstice: Create Art For Earth' exhibition, artist Judy Chicago and Turner Caroll Gallery bring the work of artists across the globe together in the shared pursuit of justice for humans, animals and the environment. This fight for justice surpasses barriers of race, gender, class, and even species. The 'Solstice' exhibition showcases the works of Judy Chicago, Swoon, and other artists from Finland, Iran, Japan, Uk and the US. through a diverse collection of environmentally-focused art that reflect upon our impact on the planet and to consider a better way forward. The exhibition is in tandem with the international 'Create For Earth' initiative conceived by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Jane Fonda, Judy Chicago, Greenpeace, and Swoon to empower artists to speak through their work and inspire global action.
ONLINE SHOW RETROSPECTIVE 2020
No More Poetry
Online Group Exhibition
Pollock Fine Art, Artnet, London
On view: Jun 25-Aug 13, 2020
featured on Artnet News
PRESS RELEASE
'Anticipating SAMO, No More Poetry is the best-known quote by Andy Warhol on the subject; a perfect three word koan that decimates both an ending and a new epoch. Michelangelo wrote poems with titles like " Joy May Kill " and lines like "TOO much good like no less then misery, May kill a man ...." In 1951 Jackson Pollock took pages of drawings executed during psychiatric sessions, and glued them to an amorphous plaster sculpture, that was later destroyed as he tried to stuff it into the trunk of his Cadillac; a passage worthy of Dante. No More Poetry will explore the polymath nature of writers and artists at home with synesthesia.' Pollock Fine Art, 25th Artnet news
ARTISTS & POETES
Jean-Michel Basquiat/SAMO, Ashley-Philomène Amougou, Paul Bowles, James Brooks, William Burroughs, Richard Van Buren, Marieli Fröhlich, Brion Gysin, Keith Haring, Robert Hawkins, Weldon Keyes, Carlo Levi, Frank O'Ohara, Jim Morrison, Jackson Pollock, Rene Ricard, Larry Rivers, Andy Warhol.
DR. LIVINGSTONE I CONSUME
Group Exhibition
Pollock Fine Art, Artnet, London
Apr 14- Jun10, 2020
Group Exhibition "Dr Livingstone I Consume' 2020 included works of Artists Kenny Scharf, Penny Slinger, Bjarne Melgaard, Ouattara Watts and Andy Warhol.Philomène channels natural forces of Earth and Wind to a soundtrack of Authur Brown’s Fire. Her toxic theme is an exploration of virus that she has revisited continuously since 2014. Her sculptures listen while her brushes share stories of rituals for the ritually deprived and those deprived of ritual. Paris-born with South-African roots" - Pollock Fine Art, London Artnet Review, 14 June, 2020
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Solo Exhibition
GERM CELL: QUARANTINE (2020)
Pollock Fine Art, Artnet, London
On view: May 15- June 31, 2020
PRESS RELEASE
PHILOMÈNE RESPONSE to an ART WORLD MELTDOWN’
'Inspired by anatomy, biological mutation and pathology GERM CELL Quarantine’2020 is a multi-media recorded performance, that depicts the molecular process of pandemic and contamination, via morphology that is both corporal and environmental. A domestic living cell. Anticipating the post-covid era, the performers stage their dystopian reality, a mirror to our environment. Are we just here to become post-human specimens for experimentation?. This cine-macroscopic query of the artists in a quarantine studio, offers a metaphor of the human organism in stasis. Like cells in the immune system, performers become hybrid ‘biological warriors’ and fight each other. Within the struggle of confinement, the perception of space become an analogy for looking inward and suggests that absolute attention to the physical world can lead to a path beyond phenomenology. In crisis imprisoned performers try to find space within a populated cell, growing into a biodiverse system with observable mutations. Trace themes of identity, rituals and displacement by the Afro-European artists Philomène and Cedric Mizero, showa single poetic response and spreads their unique perspective during this unprecedented moment in modern history.' Pollock Fine Art, London Artnet News, May 15, 2020