A photograph height 31.5 cm x width 23.5 cm (edition of 7)
Insurance value 700 Euros
In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me):
Hermeneurotic — a collection of works:
- Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (photo series with 15 short stories)
- Building Bridges 2001 (short story)
- Between the Lines or The Three Rs 2001 (short story)
- Holding the Baby 2002 (2 photographs and short story)
- Stick Insect 2003 (short story)
- Getta Life 2003 (short story)
- Night and Day 2003 (short story)
- Hermesignet 2005 (gold ring with inscription)
- Herme 2010 (digitally processed 1950’s fashion cover)
- herlookingovermeshoulder 2011 (digitally processed 1940’s advertisement)
- hermesends 2013 (digitally processed 1940’s fashion cover)
The photograph Herme is the re-working of a fashion pattern publication cover, probably from the 1950’s, by J. Niedermeier of Stuttgart, Germany (publishers Gustav Lyon). The woman on the right of the image, like Hermes, wears a winged cap. A dedication to the female Hermes has been added, which is likewise a dedication to her other, herself, the self – it is her story (not his). But the work is also suggestive of a sexual talisman, in this case of the feminine.
A Herma, herm or herme is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. (…) In ancient Greece the statues functioned as a form of apotropaic and were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as protection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
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Concept Tanya Ury
Digital image processing Ingolf Pink