Siren

Artist: Carel Moiseiwitsch

Date: March 7 to 23, 1991

Artist's Lecture: March 8

An exhibition of seventeen large-scale pastel on paper drawings which stretch out over 80 ft. in fourteen panels that surrounded a central triptych.

Moiseiwitsch's statement accompanying the work read, "According to psychoanalytic theory, we repress aspects of ourselves and others which we are unable to confront and accept. Ancient primitive cultures who worhshipped the female principle of the Great Goddess provide aspects of women that our patriarchical christian culture represses, i.e. marginalizes, outlaws or denies. Siren is a search for visual representation of this repressed female energy and power, the shadow of the Virgin Mary."

Owen, Holly, "Art that illuminates you", Kinesis, Open Space Archives, Victoria, B.C. (Box 19, File 1991: S2)