This week Davidoff Limited Art Edition opened for the second time, in Basel, showing the work of Jamaican-French artist Olivia McGilchrist. The initiative supports Caribbean artists specifically, in this case showing McGilchrist’s immersive 3D virtual reality video work, from many sides.
The artist focuses her practice on the natural world, working with sound and moving image to explore her heritage and the Caribbean landscape. ‘From many sides comes from the intersection of the exploration of the myths and stories of the region,’ the artist has said, ‘with the ways in which new media technologies allow us to re-envision how these stories are told.’
Her work explores the storytelling nature of photography and film, and questions the relationship between this and the real self. This particular work is colour-soaked, switching the immediately recognisable Caribbean scenes that she features from natural to bordering on abstract. As an artist who has grown up between cultures, born in Jamaica and spending her early years between the UK and France, McGilchrist looks on these pieces as a way of reconnecting with her homeland.
The second Davidoff Art Edition by Olivia McGilchrist is on view as part of the Davidoff Art Initiative at Art Basel
