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“So Glad to Have Found It” is Mae Dessauvage’s second solo exhibition at Tatjana Pieters. The works included in the show depict intimate scenes based on historic iconography and the artist’s transgender experiences. Included in this exhibition is a new series of shaped panel paintings, works on paper, as well as a new sculpture of her ongoing “Reliquary” series.
Looking to early renaissance painters such as Giotto and Piero Della Francesca, Dessauvage’s practice re-interprets the narrative relationship between figures and symbolic objects. The androgynous figures in her paintings exist in a state of ambiguity along with abstracted artifacts like pyxes, cloaks, mirrors, skulls, and daggers. In the past, such symbolic objects would serve as signifiers of saints. With timid expressions and hesitant gestures, the figures in her paintings are instead uncertain about these objects, reflecting our uncertain relationship to history.
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“So Glad to Have Found It” is Mae Dessauvage’s second solo exhibition at Tatjana Pieters. The works included in the show depict intimate scenes based on historic iconography and the artist’s transgender experiences. Included in this exhibition is a new series of shaped panel paintings, works on paper, as well as a new sculpture of her ongoing “Reliquary” series.
Looking to early renaissance painters such as Giotto and Piero Della Francesca, Dessauvage’s practice re-interprets the narrative relationship between figures and symbolic objects. The androgynous figures in her paintings exist in a state of ambiguity along with abstracted artifacts like pyxes, cloaks, mirrors, skulls, and daggers. In the past, such symbolic objects would serve as signifiers of saints. With timid expressions and hesitant gestures, the figures in her paintings are instead uncertain about these objects, reflecting our uncertain relationship to history.
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