“Works and Days” by Tanja Markus
In sum, this work is about: Inspired by the Bosch’s outer panels of “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” “Works and Days” transforms the depiction of the creation of the world into the metaphor of contemporary accomplishments of humanity, which, lobotomized by the principles of market mechanics, has lost its spirituality and its rituals.
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Tanja Markus Artist Statement:
Being an artist and a women’s rights advocate for the past twenty years, I work closely with women all the time: we go out in the streets to protest violence and discrimination, we organize exhibitions, workshops, lectures, public discussions and film screenings, we sit around coming up with new ideas to preserve and expand the rights our predecessors had fought for us.
