The Red Library
In Cervena knihovna (or Red Library,) Angela Voulgarelis and Tereza
Swanda create works side by side through mixed media. A dialogue of
non-fiction, very personal, responses to abuse and empowerment, Swanda and
Voulgarelis create a body of work that redefines an edition of books bound with
a red cover in Europe at the turn of the century. Often misogynistic, these
books centered on a love affair within a historical context: they were formulaic
and specifically designed to shape the female psyche.
For the last seven years, artists Angela Rose Voulgarelis and Tereza
Swanda have been writing and sharing imagery through their blog Art, Life (No Separation). Initially
started as a way for the two women to speak out against and transform their
personal experiences of sexual and domestic violence, their posts explore
notions of art in the everyday as it relates to the creative process. Working
from excerpts and images from our blog as a point of departure, we create visual
analogies to re-lease, re-form, re-live, re-establish, re-visit, re-examine,
re-capture our experiences that brought us together seven years ago and
collapse a singular idea of a female anything.
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