The Preservation Society of Newport County today announced via a press release that The Breakers will host “SEARCHERS (Act 3),” a contemporary art installation by Hadi Falapishi in conversation with The Great Elephant Migration and in collaboration with Dodie Kazanjian and Art & Newport, from August 31-September 6.
“SEARCHERS”is an installation in three acts. “One act was on view in the Solarium of Rough Point. Another act was on view at The Great Friends Meeting House in Newport. This final act will be exhibited in the second-floor loggia of The Breakers,” The Preservation Society of Newport County says.
Paid admission to The Breakers or membership in The Preservation Society of Newport County is required to view the work.
“With this installation, the artist imagines encounters with the unknown, pulling together the ambivalence of being excited and scared by arriving in a new place. At the same time, through an inversion of the notion of migration, he shifts the focus to the crowd receiving the new arrival, exploring themes of acceptance and curiosity, animating the act of looking, searching and revealing the unknown. In all three acts, he exaggerates that sense of misplacement tied to any act of migration,” The Preservation Society of Newport County says.
Falapishi created 100 paintings, sculptures and other fanciful objects that coexist with and comment on the 100-elephant herd that has landed in Newport.
“My show imagines a place when new creatures arrive and projects how the locals respond to that news,” Falapishi said in a statement.
