UMEDALEN
SKULPTUR 2002
Remember to Respect Your Mother
Concrete, mosaic glass tiles
210 x 210 cm
In the Swedish artist Helena Wikström´s Remember to Respect
your Mother we see a different strategy unfolding. The glass mosaic is
half way buried into the ground in a way that opens up a sequence of contrast
and oppositions to the surrounding landscape in terms of form and shape.
The work itself consists of red and white chequers imitating a pattern
that often is seen on chaperons used by Swedish housewives in their kitchens.
Helena Wikström has earlier worked with themes alluding to women´s
experiences in society, and with Remember to Respect your Mother she succeeds
in a moving way to extol the incessant work of all our mothers, all that
work ´that is never done´ as the saying goes. The humble outlines
of her piece, hardly visible until you come close, underlines that aspect
even further.
Eric van der Heeg
remember to respect your mother
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