Sharon Kivland
LA RAGEUSE
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Year | 2021 |
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Medium | Watercolour and gouache on Canson paper |
Dimensions | 29.7 x 21 cm |
About the work
A drawing from the series Mes Bacchantes, from a body of work provisionally entitled The Fables, which includes books, cat figures, mortified gloves, tiny uncomfortable shoes, embroideries of seed pods, Capodimonte dancers, kind wolves, and women turning into beasts.
The ‘raving ones’, or ‘the bacchantes’, tore men and animals apart; they ripped off the heads of their dead sons. Fire did not burn them; no weapon could wound them. Snakes licked the sweat from their cheeks. They suckled wolf cubs and fawns indiscriminately. Fierce bulls fell to the ground, torn apart by their hands.