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Ana Teodorescu
This painting illustrates a sphere that moves in the gut from one end to the other. This displacement is not necessarily straightforward because the digestive process is not either. The important thing to understand is that digestion takes time and to be patient. The two saxophones that frame the image are instruments which force the activation of breath and indirectly help the digestion. The water element is soothing and helps to heal. The piano music that spreads on the waves reinforces this aspect as it changes the structure of the water and thus the body. In the middle, we also see the spine as a lighthouse and a sycamore seed spiraling in the vertical direction. Arriving at the bottom, the sycamore becomes a symbol of the life cycle as it represents the seed and the tree at the same time, concluding that digestion is a lifelong process. |
Time
acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
2021
acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 inches
2021
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Maria Elena Martire
I lost someone very special to me this summer. I had finished the first part of this series (the water-colours) before it all happened. Moving through the shock waves of death, I found solace and peace in finishing the second part of this series (the pen drawings). It was not about what I wanted to draw anymore, but rather what did the water-colours beg me to draw? There was no pressure left as I moved around the pages, filling in whatever was being channeled in each piece. Some of the figures that appeared are familiar to me, like I've met them before, while others are strange and alarming even to me, yet just the same, I brought them to life with my pen, one by one. |
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Who Is in Control?
watercolour, pen
9 x 12 inches, each image
2021
watercolour, pen
9 x 12 inches, each image
2021
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Shahrzad Tahmasebi
Existence is a painting that depicts being in a sphere with a myriad of spots, surrounded by a very fragile skin, representing how existence can be friable but sustainable. |
Existence
mixed media
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
2016
mixed media
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches
2016
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Shahrzad Tahmasebi
This work attempts to display the mental difficulties that we face in this period: isolation, minimal use of objects, doing our regular activities while we have a hard time outside with masks, and while we have to stay strong and do our everyday life as well. The lines are shaky, bold, and I painted this painting in a negative and positive way to depict both sides of the subject. |
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Those Days
acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 inches 2021 |
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Shahrzad Tahmasebi
In this drawing, I wanted to express that even in the current period of Covid, we can still stay positive and communicative. These chairs represent two people seated between light and shadow, and negative and positive spaces. |
Marianne Lefebvre-Campbell
Myths and gender identities are malleable materials. Living outside the gaze in the last year allowed us to rediscover and reconnect with our body, in one’s own mythology. Our body existed through virtual mediums, isolated and sometimes only in past stories of connection about a time when we could see and touch each other. As I was alone with mine, it felt like it had porous frontiers with what was once so clearly outside of it. As we now re-enter the public scene, I feel seen with strange hybrids to offer instead of a body. With figurative patterns, a story is witnessed by the viewer about intimate parts, sometimes appearing as a magical traveler or as a mysterious fungus. It is an attempt to illustrate a narrative about its interaction with otherness in those (almost) spaces.
Myths and gender identities are malleable materials. Living outside the gaze in the last year allowed us to rediscover and reconnect with our body, in one’s own mythology. Our body existed through virtual mediums, isolated and sometimes only in past stories of connection about a time when we could see and touch each other. As I was alone with mine, it felt like it had porous frontiers with what was once so clearly outside of it. As we now re-enter the public scene, I feel seen with strange hybrids to offer instead of a body. With figurative patterns, a story is witnessed by the viewer about intimate parts, sometimes appearing as a magical traveler or as a mysterious fungus. It is an attempt to illustrate a narrative about its interaction with otherness in those (almost) spaces.
Jardin secret
terra cotta and glaze (ceramic)
7 x 11 inches (diptych)
2021
terra cotta and glaze (ceramic)
7 x 11 inches (diptych)
2021
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Riesbri
My research is about the concept of home and identity. I explore my own mixed identity and how I carry it with me through a "glass" house wearable object on my head. The notion of home is really in my head and I can carry it with me despite my geographical location. I approached my "home" identity through giving it a guarani name -"rógape", where "róga" means home and "pe" is a suffix for being inside. The object itself reflects the other half of my identity: I used typical German architecture seen in homes from German colonies in the south of Brazil, where I grew up. |
Rógape
etched acetate sheets, double sided tape 13 x 8.5 x 10.5 inches 2021 |
