Dana Sherwood

Posters by artists have always been one of the strong points of steirischer herbst’s festival program. In the 1970s, some of them even made headlines and created a local scandal. Without necessarily aiming at one but carrying on the tradition strongly connected to Graz and its people, the festival this year wants to disrupt the public space, nowadays saturated with glossy images of all kinds, with new artist’s works, sometimes enigmatic but always memorable. Artists were asked to react to the slogan The Way Out, but not necessarily to illustrate or refer to it directly. What we see are not always posters in the strict sense, but fragments of the artists’ rich imagination, fluctuating freely between scenes of pure fantasy, split-second life impressions, and direct political statements.

Bio
​Dana Sherwood (1977, New York, USA) is an artist whose diverse practice explores the relationship between humans and the natural world. She relies upon her own style of magic realism to portray contact between human and non-human animals as a tool to understand culture and behavior in a changing environment and, more importantly, to recognize the interconnectedness of our ecosystem. She lives in New York.