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2019-12-10 06:46:23


French artist Helena Hauss' contemporary ceramics series ‘Hell Hath no Fury’ depicts a series of weapons in porcelain intended to “represent the inner strength and fury that comes with being a woman, in contrast to an appearance of delicacy" #womensart

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While these certainly are interesting objects, I don't think the meaning attached to it goes all to well with its materiality. After all these things are fragile.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@>sfb< SigmundFreud'sBartender I don't think they were intended to be used in a literal way. It still is a subversion of the form even if you can't actually use them for their representation's purpose.
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But I really believe that art is all about the material aspect of things. Used as a metaphor these objects say: I might have the shape of a weapon but I'll break on first contact. Not a good metaphor for women's strength I find. But yeah -- eye of the beholder...
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
@>sfb< SigmundFreud'sBartender I mean, at some point you have to stop taking art literally. The Toronto Raptors aren’t actually a team of dinosaurs playing basketball, pirates flying the skull and crossbones flag weren’t actually carving the flesh of their victim’s bones, and in the same fashion these objects were never meant to be used as the weapons they represent.
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