Works > Vessel

Vessel draws inspiration from the pioneering research of German scholar Margaret Bieber (early 20th century), whose studies of ancient Greek theatre and costume opened new ways of understanding representation and performance in antiquity.

The project reflects on the paradox of the female figure in ancient Greece — women who were confined to the domestic sphere, invisible in public life, and regarded as the property of their husbands. Paradoxically, in the theatres from which they were excluded, male actors performed the roles of powerful and complex women written for the stage. Vessel inhabits this tension between visibility and absence, embodiment and representation.
 

The work takes two forms:
One consists of six printed photographs (A3, framed with non-reflective glass), first exhibited at Endrupholm Manor as part of the Vestjyllandsudstillingen program.
 

The second form was created for the group exhibition Xammlung, presented by the artist collective Guirlanden in collaboration with the University of Giessen — the very place where Bieber conducted her research. This iteration comprises five A4 cyanotypes shaped as flags and two larger coffee-toned cyanotype banners (150 × 70 cm).

 

Read review of the Guirlanden exhibition in German newspaper
 

Cyanotype consultant: visual artist Amanda Kessaris
Photography: Noelia Mora Solvez
 

The project was kindly supported by: Aarhus Kommunes Kulturudviklingspulje.