Virginia NGALAIA NAPANANGKA (born 1985) - Lot 87

Virginia NGALAIA NAPANANGKA (born 1985) Untitled Oil on canvas signed on the back 100 x 91 cm Virginia Ngalaia Napanangka, born in 1985, is a rising figure in contemporary Aboriginal art, deeply rooted in the official Ikuntji Artists cooperative in Haasts Bluff. She is known for her highly modern acrylic paintings, in which movement and fluidity of line take precedence over traditional pointillism. Her paintings reflect sacred ancestral narratives, the Tjukurrpa, through two major themes: the Dream of the Ancestral Woman (Kushinia), recognizable by its superimposed lines evoking ritual hair and the undulations of the desert, and the Dream of the Honey Ant (Tjupi), which maps the spiritual topography of her territory. Painted on the ground according to the custom of the Western Desert, the work has no single reading direction, offering the collector total freedom to hang it. Born in Oslo in 1978, Tonje Høydahl Sørli is a Norwegian textile artist and cartoonist, and a graduate of the Oslo National Academy of Art (KHiO). Her tapestry art is distinguished by a unique fusion between the traditional technique of haute-lisse weaving (Gobelin) and a resolutely pop and urban aesthetic, borrowed directly from the world of comics, music lyrics and underground culture. Using materials such as wool, linen and silk, she revisits this historic medium to address contemporary, engaged narratives. Her works explore feminist themes with humor and critical distance, questioning women's living conditions, gender stereotypes and representations of love and sexuality.