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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Katie Eleanor, Dear One Threads A Cocoon, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Katie Eleanor, Dear One Threads A Cocoon, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Katie Eleanor, Dear One Threads A Cocoon, 2019
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Katie Eleanor

Dear One Threads A Cocoon, 2019
Hand coloured Archival Pigment on Hahnemühle Photorag/ 100% Cotton, Framed. Print in book mount board, in custom waxed walnut frame and finished with antireflective art glass
30.5 x 40.5 cm (print), Frame: 41 x 51 cm
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Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
© Katie Eleanor
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Katie Eleanor, VIII. Rapunzel Syndrome: recovery, 2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Katie Eleanor, VIII. Rapunzel Syndrome: recovery, 2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Katie Eleanor, VIII. Rapunzel Syndrome: recovery, 2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Katie Eleanor, VIII. Rapunzel Syndrome: recovery, 2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Katie Eleanor, VIII. Rapunzel Syndrome: recovery, 2015
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Katie Eleanor, VIII. Rapunzel Syndrome: recovery, 2015
Hand-coloured portrait of a human larvae bursting out of their cocoon, immobilised in marble. Representative of a safe and isolating space, the cocoon is both a cage and a shelter....
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Hand-coloured portrait of a human larvae bursting out of their cocoon, immobilised in marble. Representative of a safe and isolating space, the cocoon is both a cage and a shelter. This tale is a​ study of transformation, of breaking apart and coming back together as the larvae emerges from the silken threads.

 

Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux's 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).

 

During the beginning of the 'Museum Age' in the 18th century , writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe discussed mythical sculpture as living in a world where they 'reign in splendid isolation' (On the Laocoon Group, 1798); a description which sings in melody with the dissociative nature of the artist's mind. In reaction, Eleanor casts stories in a form of fictional rigor mortis, through the symbolic reference to the weight and endurance of marble sculpture. Tableau's react only within themselves: anatomist studies corpse, a creature is hunted, angels embrace the sanctuary of one another. Within the anthology, Eleanor's own fragments of visual tales are complemented by visual references to characters (and their artists) who have become beautiful stains on her own visual tapestry.

 

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