HARD WAVES (Kuanyin and Virgin Mary staring at the sea), 2017

Giuseppina Giordano,HARD WAVES (Kuanyin and Virgin Mary staring at the sea), 2017/marble, Dehua porcelain, video 1:25.33 min/ installation's view

“HARD WAVES (Kuanyin and Virgin Mary staring at the sea)” simply mixes the sea waves with those of the clothes.

The statue of Kuanyin and of the Virgin Mary, that history has given us, are seen from behind and placed in such a way as to make visible the movement of their drapery: sinuous in one, straight in the other, in relation to video projection of the soft breaking of the sea waves on the beach.

Kuan yin and Virgin Mary, both embodying love and compassion of a “mother par excellence”, are considered at a first glance a meeting point between Buddhists and Christians.

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