For sale within the EU
Price: 150 Euros+postage
Details:
Ink on plywood
50×60 cm
This work is based on a work by Aert de Gelder, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery. To what direction did I take my own reinterpretation?Well, in Gelder’s painting, the woman with all her inner energy is praying to God because of the adultery that she has committed and due to which she will be stoned by the surrounding group of people as the norms of the era dictates. I felt the drive to move my focus from the dominance Jesus had over the social mindset of his time to the subject of nature and its direct or indirect impacts on the whole society.
These days it is a marginalized civilization that still maintains the dialogue with it environment: thousands of tribes living in the land they know very well, l Amazonia. As they claim, they only take what they really need from mother nature. In the minds of the other civilization, they never need to pay for the consequences of what they do to nature.In my work, I depict indigenous women in the image of a woman activist, without referring to a specific tribe, because their endeavors and struggle are all courageous and soaring examples to be followed in all corners of the earth. That woman, under all the current weight of both nature and the capitalist world, feels happy, but only as long as she can converse with her natural surroundings.
The plant pë’kë majoro, the clean rivers and the essence of having the right to live in the environment known to them for centuries, are what they want to continue to enjoy with happiness. However, their existence is constantly threatened by another minority in today’s western society, who leaves as they chase their dreams of ever-growing wealth and comfort. I intended nature grand and big, while showing its current face of droughts and floods.
