Dafna Maimon. Mutating Mary

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ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM

Moving Mutating Mary / Finissage
Performance by Dafna Maimon
Sunday, 17 November, 3 pm
For the finissage of her solo exhibition, Mutating Mary, Dafna Maimon will present a new performance based on the movements and gestures from her performance, Wary Mary, that premiered at Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin in August 2019 and which formed the point of departure for Maimon’s installation at the Künstlerhaus Bremen. Wary Mary and the Inner Marys – depicted in the drawings that are displayed in the exhibition – come to life in this durational performance. Set within the installation and to a musical composition, each of the performers will have their individual score that will run on loop repeatedly over the course of three hours.
Free admission

Guided tour through the exhibition
Wednesday, 13 November, 6 pm

Mamma mia!
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Elena Zanichelli
Wednesday, 30 October, 7 pm
On Contemporary Visual Rearticulations of Motherhood
In cooperation with the Institute for Art History – Film Studies – Art Education of the University of Bremen and the Mariann Steegmann Institut. Kunst & Gender

Curator's Tour with Nadja Quante
Wednesday, 23 October, 6 pm

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EXHIBITION

Dafna Maimon. Mutating Mary
21.09.2019 – 17.11.2019

Opening: Friday, 20 September, 7 pm
Welcome: Nicole Nowak (Executive director)
Introduction: Nadja Quante (Artistic Director/Curator)

Dafna Maimon (b. 1982 in Porvoo, Finland) produces performances, videos, installations and situations that play with incorporated social norms and cultural codes, deconstructing them through grotesque exaggeration.
In her solo exhibition, Mutating Mary, Maimon sets up an absurd scenario that weaves together the historical figure of Mary Mallon (1869–1938), aka "Typhoid Mary,” reproductive ideologies and the idea of "viral" infection in an immersive installation. The show is a continuation of a performance, titled Wary Mary, that was staged in the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin in August 2019. For the installation, the artist regurgitates elements of the performance into the space: Infectious body parts invade the gallery while drawings, costumes, texts and sound provide testimonies of the development of events passed. The rough drawings, displayed like primitive cave-paintings, capture, ruminate on, and archive the movements the protagonists exercised and embodied in the performance. They will be reactivated during the finissage.
In Mutating Mary Maimon creates an emotional landscape and space for critical examination in which humor – like in Greek drama – is applied as a means for catharsis.

Dafna Maimon’s new work wasdeveloped in cooperation with Assemble, Berlin.

Curated by Nadja Quante