Marisol Mendez - Madre (signed) the ice plant

Marisol Mendez - Madre (signed) the ice plantSetanta Books 2023 MADRE interrogates the whitewashed, phallocentric and colonial representation of womxn in my native Bolivia. The project is an exploration of the feminine as it wrestles with religious and cultural interpretations that are dogmatic and reductionist, confining womxn to either the image of the holy Virgin Mary or the sinner Mary Magdalene. Weaving together Andean folklore and Catholic iconography, the book spotlights the complexities

In Holy Bible

With his signature image vibrancy he once again seeks out young people as he sensitively accompanies them on their search for identity in a world caught up in the tension between regional traditions and global media patterns

In English and French

72 pages + text inlay 8 pages

because no matter which direction he or she looks

Fragmentary

These images respond to many of the same subjects as those by Ewald’s 1990s students

Continuing the conceptual experimentation that has defined Divola’s oeuvre

and what is considered immense is scaled to minor

”It’s a great book in which you’re immersed in a full range of different images from different sources

alongside diary entries and previously unpublished selections from her archive

our hormones