Early in , Luce Irigaray responded to my request for a collaboration on a piece of art, that was later exhibited in a group show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in huvudstaden i irland. During the process of exchanging letters and working on the display, inom developed the desire to take part in Luce Irigaray’s seminar in Bristol. She proposed that inom work on the question ‘Can art be a tool of transforming society?‘ Encouraged bygd the utopian vision offered in her early ord ‘Commodities among Themselves‘(Luce Irigaray, in This Sex Which Is Not One, trans. Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke, New York: Cornell University Press, , pp. ), inom want to consider whether art can provide us with alternative social structures and models of communication that might better kostym our needs and passions. For this purpose, it is necessary to distinguish several art contexts, because the ambitious expectations associated with social transformation cannot be applied to every artistic
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“You envied me. So I went on the World Wide Web"
OMARA Mara Oláh
OMARA Mara Oláh at Longtermhandstand
OMARA (MARA OLÁH, born 3 September , Monor, Hungary) is a painter living and working in Monor. A self-taught artist, she started painting at the age of 43 following her mother’s death. Using art as a therapeutic tool to overcome and come to terms with humiliation, the grief felt over losing her mother, the anguish of alienation from her daughter and the physical pain of her cancer, her paintings show the major traumas of her life. In she took one of her paintings – exploring her experience of her eye surgery – to the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, and has been encouraged by the Gallery’s professionals, since then she continued to paint and started to exhibit her work. Since her pictures feature inscriptions, as a result of a misunderstanding surrounding one of her works at an exhibition in Szeged: a painting representing a real occurrence, Mara
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Katharina Keller
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💙 Max Ernst Museum
💚 Patrick Blümel
🖤 Katharina Keller
💜 Patrick Blümel
💛 Jürgen Vogel for Max Ernst Museum Brühl (LVR)
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(MIDNIGHT LINE)
Katharina Keller’s installations weave fragments of identity from Siberia and Germany with personal childhood memories. Her works create immersive spaces of association at the thresholds between past, present and future. The exhibition alludes to the meridian at which it is always midnight. It marks the natural temporal boundary between two days and travels with the sun. It separates areas into yesterday and today or today and tomorrow in the process. The exhibition assembles sculptures and video works, in which Katharina Keller produces multi-layered relationships between places, lifeforms, objects or materials that are defining for her. The artist examines questions of postmirgant identity and the collective and subjective experiences of a post-Soviet s