{"id":3859,"date":"2019-01-21T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:20:30","slug":"poisoned-ivy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/poisoned-ivy\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisoned Ivy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">About Barbara Agreste<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/barbara-agreste-ophelia-blood-lake-nigredo-digital-painting.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/barbara-agreste-ophelia-blood-lake-nigredo-digital-painting.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/barbara-agreste-ophelia-blood-lake-nigredo-digital-painting-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #303030;\">Poisoned Ivy<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"western wp-block-paragraph\">Barbara Agreste, post surrealist artist, her artwork takes the viewer into a dreamy world full of tricky tiles, falling flowers, and <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">sharp<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">shards<\/span><\/span>.<br>She blends poisoned ivy to the image of <a title=\"Ophelia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/ophelia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ophelia<\/a>, showcasing a doll as the best example of her strange way of conceiving <a title=\"beauty\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beauty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beauty<\/a>: never flaunting, discreet and <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">androgynous<\/span><\/span>, part of a concealed world immersed in thriving nature and cold swamps, a fragile universe of subtle ethereal pain and melancholic moods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"western wp-block-paragraph\">Barbara Agreste disseminates fallen petals, <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">disconnected<\/span><\/span> shiny leaves, and fragments of mirror along impervious paths, leading the viewer of her video art, and short films to a journey characterized by the instability of walls and floors, and by the dazing alternating colours of unsteady tiles. There is always danger in these adventures, uncanny places of hidden eyes, or architectures built with the special purpose of causing accidents to the passengers. It is nature the tricky environment, full of leaves and blood, but this natural lanscape is also magnified and remoulded: it is not a totally true vegetation that we see, but rather a genetiacally modified one, a distorted natural proliferation, reminiscent of the cinematic settings, assembled like a labirinth hiding too many things, leading to a previously arranged scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"western wp-block-paragraph\">Never trust your eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #303030;\">Poisoned Ivy<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #303030;\">About Barbara Agreste<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/www.repticula.net\/e91d94ed-58a8-4a9d-b228-adb86171474d\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Agreste, post surrealist artist, her artwork takes the viewer into a dreamy world full of tricky tiles, falling flowers, and sharp shards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,5,7],"tags":[10,12,17,19,26,28,31,32,33],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-reviews","category-art","tag-alchemy-nigredo","tag-contemporary-art-surrealism-dark-pop","tag-dark-pop-surrealism","tag-doll-dolls-video-art-film-painting","tag-nigredo","tag-ophelia-art","tag-pop-surrealism","tag-rain-blood-video-art-film","tag-sublime-dolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.repticula.net\/BarbaraAgreste\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}