BARBARA CIUREJ & LINDSAY LOCHMAN collaborative projects
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Pliant History is an ongoing, multi-part project examining the mutability of history and envisioning power shifting form. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Pliant History: Artists' Book To expand the current discourse of power, Ciurej and Lochman requested women to “assume the pose” of Michelangelo's
imposing figures of authority – the prophets and sibyls from the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The presence of these seers and
storytellers symbolically validated prevailing institutional power. Stripped of thrones, books, and robes, their contemporary
counterparts confront history and embody another type of knowledge. In accordance with the mutability of the allegorical record The artists Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman elucidate The Naked Truth in an encounter with the Sibyls and Prophets –seers and storytellers through whom sacred prophecies flowed– once depicted by the painter of much renown Michelangelo who made manifest the divine in monumental physical glory as he served to justify authority Herein draped and undraped one upon the next Signifying the shift of power in the auspicious year of Two thousand seventeen Pliant History: Sibyls and Prophets
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