SOLOS 2022: Oh Holy Filth and Untitled

As summer comes to a close, the Contemporary Arts Center is highlighting the work of its 2022 artists in residence, a.r. havel and Britt Ransom. 

In OH HOLY FILTH, a.r. havel collaborates with artistic director Xiamara Chupaflor and make up artist/stylist/director Koko Barrios to explore sexuality and what we deem sacred by establishing sex and erotic workers as the starting place of spirituality. Combining set design, photography, collage, and spiritual practice to create a documented living tableaux and altar—the artists playfully integrate votive spirituality and the taboo to usher in a message of liberation. 

In Untitled, Britt Ransom uses sculpture as a means to meditate on the possibility of a future in which nature exists only as a relic—exploring what such an experience might look like using 3D replications of pieces of New Orleans' eight-hundred-year-old McDonogh Oak tree. 

Details at cacno.org.