A photograph height 31.5 cm x width 23.5 cm (edition of 7)
Insurance value of each photo 700 Euros
Concept Tanya Ury
Digital image processing Ingolf Pink
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 hermesends is the re-working of a Paris fashion pattern publication cover: “MODE du JOUR” from 1948; “Modèle de Marthe”, originally photographed by Bernheim, features a woman wearing a hat with a ribbon, a netted face veil and two long feathers that like Hermes’ headdress evoke the winged cap.
The legend, a dedication to a female Hermes replaces the magazine title – “hermesends” might signify: herme sends (her/me sends greetings) or hermes ends (but “her” story begins here).
Presentation
Solo exhibitions
2013 (11.7. – 7.9) “Righting the Image” — The Literature Collection in Cologne (LiK) and the Cologne City Library, present an exhibition of Tanya Ury’s work. Opening event — Thursday, 11.7.2013, 8 pm. Introduction: Dr. Gabriele Ewenz, Director of the LiK-Archive, with Suspended Beliefs — improvised poetry with improvised music: Tanya Ury (voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percussion), Peter Worringer (e‑guitar)