Name/TitlePoster: Woman and Bird (Miró)
About this objectDouble-sided black and white poster titled Woman and Bird (Miró) by Margaret Salmon.
Exhibition notes for Hole (Dundee Contemporary Arts, 8 Dec 2018 - 24 Feb 2019): "Accompanying I you me we us is a double-sided takeaway poster work, Woman and Bird (Miró). One side depicts hands performing a mudra, which is a ritualistic or spiritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. The particular gesture captured here evokes the shape of a womb, of a safe and nurturing space. The other side of the poster displays a photograph of a page from Joan Miró, Sculptures: a catalogue from a Royal Scottish Academy exhibition in 1992. This book forms part of Salmon’s wider body of research relating to the female body in art, and she was drawn to a particularly poetic title, The Caress of a Bird, that seems to narrate an idea of the body as an imaginative and erotic space. This piece forms part of an ongoing series of ephemeral poster works by Salmon in which she generously gives some of her beautiful images away to audiences over the course of an exhibition." (https://www.dca.org.uk/assets/general/Margaret_Salmon_exhibition_notes_FINAL_20_Dec.pdf)
MakerMargaret Salmon
Maker RoleArtist
Portfolio TitleHole
Date Made2018
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
TechniquePhotograph
Measurements420mm x 295mm
Subject and Association Keywordscontemporary art & design
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://www.margaretsalmon.info/Biography:
Born in 1975 in Suffern, New York, Margaret Salmon lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. She creates filmic portraits that weave together poetry and ethnography. Focusing on individuals in their everyday activities, her films capture the minutiae of daily life and infuse them with gentle grandeur, touching upon universal human themes. Adapting techniques drawn from various cinematic movements, such as Cinema Vérité, the European Avant Garde and Italian Neo-Realism, Salmon’s orchestrations of sound and image introduce a formal abstraction into the tradition of realist film. Margaret Salmon won the first Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2006. Her work was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and the Berlin Biennale in 2010 and was featured in individual exhibitions at Witte de With in Rotterdam and Whitechapel Gallery in London among others.
Object TypePoster
Object numberGWL-2019-34
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