Description
In this miniature bust of the well-known writer/poet/artist Ania Walwicz (1951-2020), her image was re-conceptualised by painting the face to red. This work is part of a series of well-known female figures in history, where Elif Sezen explores the psychological and domestic tension of female identities embodied in each other with the connecting color red. By shifting the perception of ‘inner and outer’, ‘personal and universal’, ‘trauma and liberation’, Sezen intends to explore new and evocative ideas through expanding the possibilities of visual and poetic language in sculpture.
Materials Clay, acrylic paint
Measurements (mm) H 140 W 120 L 80
Estimated cost to post within Australia $25
Contact exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
About Elif Sezen
Elif Sezen is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, researcher, bilingual writer and poet. She holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash University. Her work has been exhibited widely, nationally and internationally. Her practice evolves through various media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, print media, installation, digital media, artists’ books, music and poetry. In her work, she speculates upon reconceptualising memory traces emerging from familial, personal, collective trauma and loss. This explorative process leads her to a restorative and a celebrative notion of self-construction, desire, longing and a sense of homecoming. Elif was part of the Dangerous Women Project (The University of Edinburgh) with her essay, artworks and poetry and her contribution was published in The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression, edited by Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson (Leuven University Press, 2021).
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