December 8 to December 15
SEBarnet
Single channel video, 2’ 23”
Luise Schröder
Katja Stuke
Maithili Bavkar
Black Brides
The saree, which is the traditional Indian woman’s attire, is rarely found in black. It is considered an inauspicious colour for an occasion such as an Indian wedding. For me the black saree in this work is specifically a bride’s saree. In India, it is necessary for all married women to wear a chain made of black and gold beads called a ‘Mangalsutra’, never to be removed as long as they are married. It is the symbol of a marriage only carried by women. I used Mangalsutras and reformed them into vaginas, stitched as motifs on the black saree. The motifs, perfect at first, are shifting and becoming unmade and broken along the end of the saree. Marriage tends to be a focal point of an Indian woman’s life and she is expected to be a virgin until marriage. As marital rape is not recognised as a crime in India, women’s bodies are not their own and are controlled by conservative patriarchal rules of the society. Draping the black saree with vaginas, for me becomes a space to escape narratives written for us and reclaim our bodies
Ruth Maclennan
The temperature has dropped. It is close to freezing and a fog hung outside my window this morning. It was a watery indecisive mist, not a heavy blanket, not the kind that muffles the street sounds. I turned on the flashing lights on my bike to make sure I didn’t disappear. Wearing a cloth face mask trapped my warm breath, a moist cocoon.
Ivana Vollaro
Pumpkin seeds become letters become stamps, 2020.
Anne Brunswic
L’électricienne et le photographe
On lit en russe « 28 mai 1932 » et un fragment de la légende « électro-monteur, ouvr… ». Écrit à la plume sur le cliché, 1036 est le numéro d’ordre dans la collection. Celle-ci va de l’automne 1931 au mois d’août 1933 et se termine au n°7600. Les plaques de verre ont été détruites lorsque le KGB a abandonné à la hâte ses locaux de Petrozavodsk (Carélie) à la chute de l’Union soviétique. Ne sont restés que des tirages collés par ordre chronologique dans dix grands albums déposés aujourd’hui au musée régional.
Manuela Morgaine
stay, remain, rest, linger, loiter, dally, stop, stay put, stick around, kick about, kick around,bide, tarry, stand by, hold back, be patient, bide one’s time, hang fire, mark time, kill time, waste time, cool one’s heels, kick one’s heels, twiddle one’s thumbs, pause, stop, cease, halt, discontinue, rest, hold on, hang around, hang about, sit tight, hold one’s horses, sweat it out, await, look out, watch out, anticipate, expect, be ready, be in readiness, long for, hope for, count the days until, be postponed, be delayed, be put off, be held back, be deferred, be put on the back burner, be put on ice, delay, postpone, put off, hold off, hold back, defer, delay, hold-up, period of waiting, interval, interlude, intermission, pause, break, stay, cessation, suspension, detention, check, stoppage, halt, interruption, lull, respite, recess, postponement, discontinuation, moratorium, hiatus, gap, lapse, rest, entr’acte, stay awake, stay up, keep vigil.
Natacha Nisic
Liza Dimbleby
Image from Andrew Cranston’s studio wall, Glasgow, 2020
Letter from Glasgow: THE ROOM INSIDE
The windows were like paintings set in a wall, or the openings of an enormous Advent calendar, lit from behind. They had small figures in, and for once I was looking at these imaginary paintings as a depiction, as stories that draw you in, rather than unpicking juxtapositions of colour, surfaces and viscosities. I was thinking of the pleasure that could be had by giving yourself up to these imagined scenes and not just following or analysing the language of paint. I made a leap across the river and into the window world that had become a painting.
Ana Mendes
Ana Mendes, Single Entry, text, 210 x 297 mm, 2020