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This ongoing project uses female figurines of antiquity often known as Venuses.
Although little is known about what they represented at the time of their creation and how these
were used they have become metaphors for our mother earth. In these series I have used :
The Venus of Brassempouy, a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic, about
25,000 years BP was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France.
The Cucuteni Figurine from Romania dated to 4000 years BC is a ceramic figurine that has lines
that may reflect body modification.
Within Cycladic culture in Greece around 2500 BC, the figurines’ role and meaning remains
elusive but the nude female figures are probably linked with fertility and the life cycle, a central
spiritual concern in the ancient Mediterranean.
The Venus of Dolni Vestonice is a ceramic statuette of a nude female figure dated to
31 000 – 30 000 years BP found in Moravia, Czech Republic.
I embedded in each, like parasites, artifacts that reflect the current damages we inflict on the
planet and thus ourselves. Some address mining extraction, pollution, and war.
They could be displayed behind vitrines, as in a museum
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