2021/04/07

Carla Gannis’ “Garden of Emoji Delights” … Delights

A reimagination of Hieronymus Bosch’s iconic triptych for the digital age, Carla GannisThe Garden of Emoji Delights opens at Stockholm’s Fotografiska. In her 2014 collage, the American artist explores how Bosch’s visual world from 500 years ago matches our emoji dictionary, circa now. “There is humour, darkness, and absurdity,” state the curators. “Earthly, cosmological, and technological conditions are combined,” revealing ideologies and social constructs that have remained unchanged for centuries.

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