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Repository 186: What We Call Love | Love is All We Need
This past Fall my husband and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary in Ireland. In Dublin we were able to see the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s current show, up through February 2016, titled “What We Call Love”. This ambitious show celebrates visual artists’ take on the ever-changing idea of love from the Surrealists to Louis Bourgeois and Jim Hodges. While our ideas of love change throughout time, the feeling is always the same. There were three pieces in…
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Repository 84: Russian Artist Creates Women Only Golden Shower in Venice
Russian conceptual artist Vadim Zakharov has transformed* the Russian Pavilion in Venice this year into a charged performance separated into “five acts” using gender as a dividing line. The installation is inspired by the myth of Danaë who was famously raped by Zeus – though in the write up of the art piece the rape is called “impregnation” to soften the blow. The crafty and powerful Zeus raped Danaë in this particular myth, not by transforming into a swan or…
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