Sunday, 1 September 2013

Witches and wiked bodies - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - 2013


Frans Francken II, Witches' Sabbath, 1606

From Out of the Woods, Untitled (Encryption)  2002 by Kiki Smith

John Martin, Macbeth, from circa 1820

John William Waterhouse, The Magic Circle, 1886

L'Appel de la Nuit by Paul Delvaux, 1938

Markéta Luskacová, Woman in a Cat Mask, 2000,
 from the series On Death and Horses and Other People,
 1988-2013

Study for an Engraving by John Faed to illustrate Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns

Three Weird Sisters from Macbeth, 1785 by Henry Fuseli

Natasha Lesueur and Bruno Pelassi



I remember listening to Natasha Lesueur's lecture in France when she was talking about this project she did with her male friend where they would go shopping for women shoes in car boot sales and work on them in order to fit the man's feet. 

Newsha Tavakolian - "Listen"

The Project Listen focuses on women singers who are not allowed to perform solo or produce their own CDs due to Islamic regulations in effect since 1979 revolution. The photos are taken of the professional women singers performing in their mind in front of a large audience where in reality this was taking place in a small private studio in downtown Teheran. Subsequently, in my mind, I made a dream over CD for each of the woman which was my own interpretation of the society iI live in and experience, however,the CD cases will for now remain empty.

"For me a woamn's voice represents a power that if you silence it, imbalances society and makes everything deform. The porject Listen echoes the voices of these silenced women. I let Iranian women singers perform through my camera while the world has never heard them."









Sophia Wallace - Cliteracy