{"id":46676,"date":"2018-12-04T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=46676"},"modified":"2018-12-12T22:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:06:55","slug":"art-installation-opens-in-queens-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/culture\/art-installation-opens-in-queens-arcade","title":{"rendered":"Art installation opens in Queens Arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arcade Cardiff has been transformed into a pink utopia exploring femininity and consumerism by local artist Sarah Roberts<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_46681\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 800px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-46681 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3272.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3272-416x312.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3272-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3272-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Roberts creates politically charged art in London and Wales<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An art installation by Welsh artist Sarah Roberts has opened in a creative gallery space in Queens arcade this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah\u2019s installation, \u2018CLOD DI\u2019, is located in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arcadecardiff.co.uk\/about\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arcade Cardiff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a not-for-profit gallery space based in Queens Arcade shopping centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CLOD DI, meaning \u2018oily\u2019 in Welsh, explores themes like consumerism and feminism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/274784216512171\/permalink\/276904306300162\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> includes objects such as tweezers and breast milk bags painted pink to examine issues like extravagant spending on household items. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The one-room exhibition features a selection of various domestic objects painted pink, which Sarah says are meant to convey a feminist statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The installation took 14 hours to paint, according to Teddy Hunter, a volunteer at Arcade Cardiff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The local artist says the colour and contents of the installation are designed to be immersive and should be impossible to ignore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt should be something that\u2019s a bit unsettling,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IHpUbzzVIFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah views herself as a feminist artist with a political angle that informs all of her work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The installation takes inspiration from Sarah\u2019s fascination with feminine 1990s interiors and the dangers of excessive consumerism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consumers may be taking notice of artistic warnings such as Sarah\u2019s. Spending during this year\u2019s Black Friday was down by 12%, reported the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46320551\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The artist\u2019s past exhibitions have covered politically charged themes like censoring of bodies on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah said: \u201cHow did we get to a point where a nipple cover was less offensive than seeing a nipple on Instagram?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46682\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 800px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-46682 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3372.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3372-416x312.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3372-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3372-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The installation was designed by Roberts to be all consuming<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The installation also explores how Sarah feels she is losing touch with the Welsh language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only 19% of Wales\u2019s population speak Welsh, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/statswales.gov.wales\/Catalogue\/Welsh-Language\/welshspeakers-by-localauthority-gender-detailedagegroups-2011census\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the most recent census<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before naming the installation \u2018Clod Di\u2019, Sarah was planning on calling the installation \u2018claddu\u2019, meaning \u2018burial\u2019 in Welsh, to represent how she has \u201cburied\u201d her roots<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A beginner\u2019s Welsh record bought by a friend of Sarah\u2019s in Amsterdam provides the soundtrack to the installation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s a degree of shame around this notion of losing your Welsh,\u201d said Sarah, \u201cI feel like I\u2019m only half translating the exhibition as I go along.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah\u2019s exhibition will run from now until 22 December 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcade Cardiff has been transformed into a pink utopia exploring femininity and consumerism by local artist Sarah Roberts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":46681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,19,18],"tags":[12351,101,341,12354,12352,12353,1242,12350],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - 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