“Proverbial Cartography” by Sarah Beecham
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Proverbial Cartography — electronic montages and large scale embroideries dealing with the ambiguities in a womans’ political position.
The work is concerned with a personal viewpoint of women’s positions with reference to oral traditions, historical reading and contemporary concerns, both politically and in the internal/formal structuring of art-works. Taking English proverbs as a starting point and exploiting their inherent idiosyncratic and bizarre qualities the combination of possibilities of journeys, patronesses, naivety, maps, allegories and martyrdom is an extremely fertile ground for the elaboration of political ideas. Electronic montaging enables the re-articulation of the oral and proverbial tradition in the context of contemporary issues.
