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Hoarding as art? Sure!
Admit it — you have a penchant for collecting stuff. Or at least you’re like the rest of us and attach undeniably strong emotions to even just a few of the most ordinary of things, making those things impossible to part with.
With, ‘Unsustainable Attainment,’ her current exhibit at Women & Their Work, Austin-based artist Virginia Yount imagines a near-future society where everyone has turned into hoarders hunkering down to escape an outside world plagued by environmental and economic collapse and always under surveillance. Under such anxious conditions people exercise self-obsession, collecting everything they can as means of protection.
Grim as all that sounds, there’s something whimsical and even magical in Yount’s wonderfully rendered scenes in gouache and mixed-media.
To investigate notions of hoarding and compulsive collecting in Yount’s work and beyond, a panel discussion will feature three area psychotherapists Gemma Marangoni Ainslie P,.D., ABPP; Mary Holman, MA, LPC and Naomi Freireich, LCSW.
‘Turning the Tables on Unsustainable Attainment’
7 p.m. Wednesday
Free
Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca St.
womenandtheirwork.org
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