Mary Doesn't Just Wear Blue
From 12th of July to 29th of August.
11 Western artists re-imagine Mary as a cultural icon beyond religion.
The exhibition invites the audience to explore how Mary can take shape as a non-religious icon, and how her image adapts to current times.
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Mary Doesn’t Just Wear Blue
The Virgin Mary is one of the greatest icons of Western culture and art history. For centuries her image has been used to promote models of femininity. Today, her image has gone beyond religion, and Mary can be found in necklaces, t-shirts, comic books, and even underpants.
For this exhibition, 11 Western artists re-imagine Mary as a cultural icon beyond religion. The exhibition invites the audience to explore how Mary can take shape as a non-religious icon, and how her image adapts to current times. What kind of woman do the artists show? How does Mary’s image adapt to current ideas of femininity and womanhood?
This exhibition is part of my PhD, an Arts-Based Research project, in which I study new meanings of femininity in contemporary secular images of Mary. In order to do so, I am looking at images from 3 different points: their creation, the images themselves, and their reception (how they are viewed).
The 11 artists of this exhibition have collaborated with the project by creating artwork reflecting their interpretation of femininity and the Virgin Mary from a non-devotional perspective.
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