Darling Killers #02 - Charlott Markus

Charlott Markus didn’t so much kill this darling, as wish to resurrect it! Pygmalion 09, a work from her exam show at the Rietveld Academy, is for all intents and purposes ‘dead to the world’, buried in the past, yet already containing the seeds of themes and patterns that reappear and evolve throughout her work. Extended still lives, activism, textiles, memento mori, the colour blue and last but not least, the coded autobiographical references in seemingly abstract works. Woven into the fabric of her oeuvre, are the people, the places and the ideas that left their mark on her. Informed by a background in psychology and theology, the spirituality contained within this beautifully constructed photographic composition is palpable, and this archival print has been generously offered up for auction at the symbolic starting price of one euro.