Emma Talbot has become known for her large-scale installations of painting on silk, a medium whose formal characteristics she finds suited to articulating a feminist discourse. Talbot combines painting, drawing, animation and large-scale sculpture with distinctive imagery, combining mythological and rhythmic motifs, vibrant colours and calligraphic texts to raise issues relating to ecopolitics and the environment. In her works, Talbot engages with questions such as \u2018what is nature\u2019 and how \u2013 or if \u2013 an ethical \u2018return\u2019 to it is possible.<\/p>\n
Human\/Nature (2025), newly commissioned for \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4, is a monumental textile installation made of painted silk and an accompanying animation film entitled You Are Not the Centre (Inside the Animal mind). In it \u2013 as in many of the artist\u2019s works, there\u2019s a female protagonist \u2013 a version of the artist herself \u2013 who is always searching and exploring, trying to make sense of the world. In this work, Talbot leaves the human sphere to enter the animal mind, trying to understand the world viewed from non-human perspectives. The figure lives through different sensory experiences as she encounters the olfactory world of the dog, the mind of a spider that plans to make complex webs or the visual perceptions of deer and the anxiety responses of captive birds etc.<\/p>\n
The large-scale painted silk hanging features chimeras, monstrous human inventions combining different animals. This imagery symbolizes human fantasies and the entangled relationships between humans, animals, and nature. The chimera serves as a metaphor for the human Ego, our imaginings of the unknown, and the often-monstrous ways we relate to the natural world.<\/p>\n
Accompanying the textile work is a three-dimensional hand-made, fabric work which explores the physical presence of a chimera; on one side, there is a stack of separate human and animal elements: wolf, woman, bird and snake journey through natural space. On the other side, the black silhouette of the stacked forms suggests they all share the same physical matter and energy, all part of the same living schema. Together, these works seek to unravel human-nature entanglements and envision the possibility of alternative, more caring futures.<\/p>\n
The work has been specially commissioned for the exhibition Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives<\/em>, at \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4, 15 May 2025 \u2013 15 February 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emma Talbot has become known for her large-scale installations of painting on silk, a medium whose formal characteristics she finds suited to articulating a feminist discourse. Talbot combines painting, drawing, animation and large-scale sculpture with distinctive imagery, combining mythological and rhythmic motifs, vibrant colours and calligraphic texts to raise issues relating to ecopolitics and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":91292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91209"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95560,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209\/revisions\/95560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}