I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind: Megan Baker

In ‘I See You in the Clouds, You Move with the Wind’, Baker looks back on the Old Masters. Specifically, the artist uses Titian’s ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ (1520-23) as a point of reference for the exploration of temporality in art history. The Renaissance work is in fact presented as past, present and future.  Ariadne is captured in the present, but mid turn from her past as Theseus sails off over her left shoulder as she is abandoned on the island of Naxos. Simultaneously, she is also about to look towards a moment in the future, as Bacchus is leaping from his chariot.