Perseus (portrait of a young marble worker),, 2017

Hong Kong 2018
Perseus (portrait of a young marble worker),

Silverlens

Photography
archival pigment ink print on Hahnemühle fine art paper, mounted on acrylic support, framed
1 of 5
152.4 x 121.9 (cm)
60.0 x 48.0 (inch)
Wawi Navarroza looks to stone, and in particular marble, to discuss ideas of landscape, myth and material via the island of Romblon in the Philippines. Its origins are far more profound, because marble comes from the land, as part of the mountains that have been silently shaping themselves for eternity. It is this cycle that the artist is drawn to, the shifting states from land to material and finally, to dust. She portrays a classical mise en scene of men at work, to the final objects they have been producing, yielding images of of labor, masculinity and hard stone.