Visual Elements: This artwork features a collage-like composition using rough, torn pieces of cardboard or similar material. The muted, earthy tones of the cardboard create a weathered, textural quality, while the irregular shapes and torn edges add a sense of impermanence and fragility.
Subject Matter: The collage prominently displays the phrase "Beast, Beast of burden" scrawled across the surface, juxtaposed with a few additional handwritten words. The holes and distressed areas in the material suggest a sense of wear and deterioration, evoking a sense of burden or strain.
Artistic Style and Technique: The artist has employed a raw, lo-fi aesthetic, using simple, found materials and handwritten text to convey a sense of rawness and immediacy. The collage-like assembly and the unfinished, frayed edges contribute to the overall sense of the artwork as a work-in-progress or a discarded remnant.
Context: This artwork likely reflects the artist's intention to explore themes of labor, burden, and the human condition, perhaps drawing on the metaphor of the "beast of burden" to comment on the struggles and hardships faced by individuals or marginalized communities. ...
“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. ...
In 2016 Croy Nielsen moved from Berlin to Vienna, where it is located in the beletage apartment of a historical building in the 1st district. The gallery was founded by Oliver Croy (AT) and Henrikke Nielsen (DK). Artists such as Nina Beier, Marie Lund, and Benoît Maire, have been part of the program since its inception, and were later joined by Olga Balema, Georgia Gardner Gray, and Sandra Mujinga. Vienna-based artists include Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Joanna Woś, and Soshiro Matsubara. The gallery has strong ties to the Nordic region, representing several artists from the Scandinavian contries and regularly participating in fairs and projects in the area. ...
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