Marenka gabeler biography for kids
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On the Exploration of Identity
In 2021, as the first pandemic of the global age was taking hold, visual artist Marenka Gabeler was making work that she would later come to frame around the theme of Motherhood.
As the virus extended through cities, countries and continents, the dimensions of one’s own world shrunk and became ever atomised. In lockdowns, with businesses shut and travel suspended, people were only able to interact with those in their own household.
Explore books by Marenka Gabeler with our selection at Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over.Accordingly, the focus of Gabeler’s work became home and family: the buildings and trees she came across on cycle rides with her children around the empty city; her two sons playing and sleeping within the four walls of their house.
There is a strong dualism at play in this body of work.
What at first may seem calm or playful, can on closer look seem menacing or dark: intimacy can become captivity, a game can turn dangerous. One such example is Asleep and Trees, fifteen monochrome ink drawings and photographs arranged in a