Kassandra

2005 to 2010

Kassandra 1 172x132cm 2007

Kassandra 2 64x52cm 2007

Kassandra 3 117x117cm 2008

Kassandra 9 99x122cm 2009

Kassandra 11 76x102cm 2008

Kassandra 10 155x152cm 2008

Kassandra 30 100x100cm 2009

Kassandra 29 100x60cm 2009

Kassandra 31 100x100cm 2009

Kassandra 23 76x61cm 2009

Kassandra 24 76x61cm 2009

Kassandra 25 76x61cm 2009

Kassandra 26 76x61cm 2009

According to Greek myth, Cassandra was a war casualty of a special kind. The god Apollo fell in love with the beautiful daughter of Troy’s king Priam, and as an enticement gave her gift of prophecy. But Cassandra would not relent, and rejected the god. He promptly exacted revenge by laying a fateful curse on the seeress: no one would ever give credence to her predictions. Thus it was in vain that Cassandra tried to warn her countrymen of the Greeks’ deception with the famous Trojan Horse. Half mad, she was therefore forced to witness the destruction of her homeland, she was abducted, raped, and finally killed as part of Agamemnon’s war booty.

Dr.Peter Joch, Kunsthalle Darmstadt

Kassandra 14 152x152cm 2009

Kassandra 22 122x122cm 2009

Kassandra 32 122x98cm 2010

Kassandra 36 122x99cm 2010

Kassandra 35 81x58cm 2010

Kassandra 34 102x76cm 2010

Kassandra 18 203x203 2010

Kassandra 38 198x173 2010

imagining Kassandra

spitting

Kassandra - between hair and face