Julia Mandle’s new installation of work relating to piñatas explores the dark side of a children’s game. Lamiya's Last Game includes photographs, works on fabric, and ceramic, paper and bronze sculpture. Mandle de Bever’s body of work was inspired by a photograph of a young Iraqi girl’s body being prepared for burial taken by Stephanie Sinclair for the Chicago Tribune in April 2003.
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Piñatas originally were created for redemptive ceremonies whereby revelers would violently strike a ceramic seven-pointed star shape and wish for the sweet hereafter symbolized by the gifts contained within. Taken by the combination of brutality and naivety, Mandle de Bever builds on the concept of piñatas to call attention to the youngest victims of America’s invasion of Iraq.
Julia Mandle’s new installation of work relating to piñatas explores the dark side of a children’s game. Lamiya's Last Game includes photographs, works on fabric, and ceramic, paper and bronze sculpture. Mandle de Bever’s body of work was inspired by a photograph of a young Iraqi girl’s body being prepared for burial taken by Stephanie Sinclair for the Chicago Tribune in April 2003.
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Piñatas originally were created for redemptive ceremonies whereby revelers would violently strike a ceramic seven-pointed star shape and wish for the sweet hereafter symbolized by the gifts contained within. Taken by the combination of brutality and naivety, Mandle de Bever builds on the concept of piñatas to call attention to the youngest victims of America’s invasion of Iraq.
