Birke Gorm
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This artwork features a weathered, wooden branch with a split in the center, revealing a pale, fungal growth emerging from within. The composition highlights the natural textures and patterns of the wood, with its rough, knotted exterior contrasting with the delicate, unfurling fungus. The piece employs a minimalist and abstract style, focusing on the interplay of organic forms and materials to convey a sense of the cycles of nature and the hidden life within the natural world. This artwork likely reflects the artist's interest in exploring the hidden complexities and interdependencies found in the natural environment. ...
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Birke Gorm
1986, German“The common woman is as common as a thunderstorm”, says the woven writing of Birke Gorm’s hanging fabrics made of jute. Gorm works with archaic materials of metal, terracotta, jute or wood, incorporating a range of techniques, such as woodcarving, stitching, writing, and flexing. The artist’s practice explores womanhood and solidarity, expressed in powerful and assuring terms. Her sculptural works depict human-shaped figures made out of found and collected over time terracotta bricks and peebles, with pots and jugs in the place of heads and faces. On their stomachs are fabrics and cushions which carry keychains, nails, bolts, champagne corks, and other accidental objects. Pregnancy is depicted as not a weakening, bed-bounding female destiny, but a moving, fierce power. The common woman can be any woman, and any woman is an empowered force fueling collective solidarity. ...
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