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This edition is a photo-etching of the painting titled Embracing Flames, 2019, from Jesse Mockrin’s solo exhibition ‘The Marks of a Stranger’ at Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York. This body of work explores the historical legend of Lucretia, a multi-faceted tale of a heroine’s ‘honor’ self-sacrifice tied to the founding of republican Rome. Through this art historical lens, the artist sparks a conversation on gender, power, appropriation, and time.
Jesse Mockrin explores the fluidity of gender and hierarchies of power through the re-telling of biblical and mythological canons. Her luminous paintings disrupt old narratives through methods of cropping, fragmentation, and caesura. These contemporary compositions investigate the forces driving culture and consciousness, transforming the meaning of images throughout art history by bringing them to the present context.
