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Sara Mertens: Material Fatigue
Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors have taken inspiration from seventeenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum. Looking at these objects, what eureka moments do they see? Sara Mertens created a graphic story in response to an ivory statue of what is thought to be Diana, made by Jean Goujon. ‘[I] see a statue, of a woman, crackled, as if she’s trying to escape.’
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Jean Goujon, Diana (?), ivory, ca. 1550 – ca. 1560 © Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Material Fatigue
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