Period| | 2021.09.15 - 2021.11.30 |
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Operating hours| | Tue-Fri 11:00 - 19:00 Sat 11:00 - 17:00 |
Space| | eligere gallery |
Address| | 55, Apgujeong-ro 79-gil, B1 Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea 06013 |
Closed| | Sunday, Monday |
Price| | Free |
Phone| | 02-518-4287 |
Web site| | 홈페이지 바로가기 |
Artist| |
타니아 말모레호 Tania Marmolejo
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정보수정요청 |
Exhibition Information
Tania Marmolejo has been exploring large-scale paintings of ambiguous female expressions by juxtaposing the intimate and personal with the monumental. The Artist uses portraits and physical expression as a communication system to transfer emotions into the viewers creating affective and emotional empathy. Growing up in a nature-rich and multi-cultural environment in the Dominican Republic, nature means emotion to Tania Marmolejo. Various nature elements can be found in the background of the works holding personal stories of her memories and experiences. The new body of work presented in this exhibition guides the viewers to personalize the story through observation through various expressionistic gestures depicted in the harmony of intensity and beauty of innocence centering on ideas of female strength and identity. “Anacaona has long been a symbol of female empowerment and resistance in the Caribbean culture, having been a female Taíno Tribe Chieftain in the 1500s in the island of what is now the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Executed by the Conquistadores for defending her people and refusing to become one of their concubines, she became a metaphor for female strength and resistance in times of mostly male heroes, quietly existing in my subconscious since middle school. The questioning of expected female behavior of submission and acceptance within patriarchal rules has long been a theme of mine in my art, this time focusing on the varied emotional reactions to psychological restraint. And in this collection, more specifically, a quieter, sometimes softer, more calculating process of discovery of an unbound female identity, and the pleasure of exhibiting it without restraints. Choosing female characters to use as vessels for these sometimes very subtle emotions, they find themselves in different stages of questioning and calculating. Using Anacaona as my metaphor for resistance and strength to lead the way, I weave my own personal story into these vignettes of liberated females. I’d like to believe somehow she would be proud.” (Source=Eligere gallery)