TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeffery, Celina
ED  - Bryant, Levi S.
AB  - The preternatural, as explored by these artists, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics. They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable and mineral; living and dead. The confusion between animate and inanimate is a primary concern, a surreality which unites with the preternatural’s love for reveling in the mysterious: bizarre fragments, unreadable words, objects of absurd scale, and distortions of the relativity of time and space flourish throughout this exhibition.  Preternatural is the catalogue for a multi-site art exhibition (9 December 2011 through 17 February 2012, in Ottawa, Canada) that draws from the idea that art itself is a form of preternatural pursuit, in which the artists participating explore the bewildering condition of being in between the mundane and the marvelous in nature. It questions a world that understands itself as accessible, reachable, and ‘knowable’ and counters it with a consideration of this heterogenous proposition.
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0001.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004482
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945782702
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - nature
KW  - supernatural
KW  - exhibition catalog
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5f300b0f-dc3a-4ce6-838e-f22cc1542b5e/1004482.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25613
PB  - punctum books
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9781105245022
TI  - Preternaturalnull
ER  - 
