Ahead of her solo show at DIMIN, painter Emily Coan talked to us about sensuality and the the miracle of Spider Silk.
, which opened at DIMIN last week, she gathered a group of young artists and creatives at a discreet location in the Hudson Valley and asked them to act out a fairy tale she devised, in which the girls are working together to create garments—or, rather, armor, out of spider silk. “It
COAN: Sometimes stuff just bubbles up in the collective unconscious. I was hearing about spider silk a lot, and also I’m reading a book right now with spider silk in it, and I have a friend who had a song called “Spider Silk” that came out right after I shot this. But I’ve always been interested in clothing and garments as protection. Feminine, beautiful things as a source of power and protection.COAN: It’s actually kind of yellow, so I took some creative liberties.
COAN: I’m from Florida, so it’s a different social strata than the debutantes here, but it’s community leaders coming together and it’s very ritualized. All the men wear suits with tails and gloves and we had to get wedding gowns that were white, white, white. Like, blue white, and nothing else was acceptable. You’re supposed to be introduced into society as daughters of powerful men in the area, which for me was really weird because that’s my stepdad.
SANDSTROM: Because there’s such a live action component, I can’t help but ask: did you consider a video or a play instead of or in addition to the paintings? SANDSTROM: That translates very much to this work. I want to talk about myths and fairy tales. In the story, the girls are harvesting spider silk to build their own clothing, symbolizing a feminine armor. What are they protecting themselves against?
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