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TATJANA PIETERS is pleased to invite you ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’, an intimate front room presentation of recent work by Mae Dessauvage. The project celebrates the launch of the first publication on Mae Dessauvage’s work, published by Blurring Books, NY.
The works included in the show depict intimate scenes based on historic iconography and the artist’s transgender experiences. 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. Dessavauge’s work is...More
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TATJANA PIETERS is pleased to invite you ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’, an intimate front room presentation of recent work by Mae Dessauvage. The project celebrates the launch of the first publication on Mae Dessauvage’s work, published by Blurring Books, NY.
The works included in the show depict intimate scenes based on historic iconography and the artist’s transgender experiences. 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. Dessavauge’s work is...More
