January 25 - May 18, 2019
“Sideways to the Sun, a site-specific installation by Natasha Bowdoin commissioned by the Moody Center for the Arts, will offer a new orientation towards nature. Bringing the outside in, Bowdoin will populate the gallery with larger-than-life springtime abundance, carnivorous plants, and creeping vines, inspired by such far-reaching sources as cartoons and 1800s scientific illustrations, 1970s floral textiles, French film director George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon, and factual and fictional exploration narratives. Bowdoin beckons us into the thicket, to wander deep into the potentially savage precincts of the natural world, where unknown possibilities lie in the overgrowth.”
Opening: January 25, 2019 | 7–10 pm
Special event: April 27, 2019 | 8–10 pm
Fashion Show: Machine Dazzle
Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University
6100 Main Street, MS-480
Houston, 77005 Texas
713.348.2787
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