Set of three black and white photographs
with English texts by Tanya Ury incorporating
Texts from ‘Daddy’ by Sylvia Plath
(H 167 cm x B 106 cm) x 3 framed photographs
Camera Doris Frohnapfel
Insurance value 10,000 Euros
An A2 Altarpiece print of the photoseries designed by Heinrich Miess was produced in 1996
Price A2 print 50 Euro
Information on the sizes on the back of the A2 print is incorrect:
Format 127 x 174 cm
not 173 x 110 cm
The photo series consists of 3 life-size self-portraits presented as a triptych. In the outer two photographs the artist is seen wearing a full-length leather German Luftwaffe coat from the last World War; she stands against a white background challenging the viewer. The coat is open, revealing her naked body. In the central image, she stands against a black background hugging the coat protectively, to her body. The printed texts in the central image are consecutively: verses from ‘Daddy’ a poem by Sylvia Plath, written in October 1962 and verses written by Tanya Ury. The texts are about anger and the over identification with the role of the Jewess as victim. They are also about the difficult relationship with Germany the fatherland and the German language itself.
Presentation
1996 Solo exhibition, Foyer, Feminale Women’s Film Festival, Cologne (D)
1996 Group exhibition, Mensch 2000 Hochbunker Cologne-Ehrenfeld (D)
1998 Not Black and White, Group exhibition with Doris Frohnapfel, Fotogalerie Brotfabrik, Berlin (D)
1998 DAVKA, Jüdisches Leben in Berlin (Jewish Life in Berlin), Centrum Judaicum (D)
Publications & Press
1999 Image in publication: Jüdische Visionen in Berlin (Jewish Visions in Berlin) (D)
1999 Image in publication: Aufbrüche — Migrantinnen, Schwarze Frauen und Jüdinnen im Kulturellen Diskurs Deutschland (Marginal Cracks — Cultural Production of Women Migrants, Black and Jewish Women in Germany), Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein ISBN 3−89741−042−7 (D)
2002 Image in publication: Plath, Hitchcock und die Metaphorik der Shoah: zur Vermitteltheit von Geschichte und Identität in der Kunst Tanya Urys, Dr Cathy S. Gelbin, Deutsch-jüdische Literatur der neunziger Jahre: Die Generation nach der Shoah Erich Schmidt Verlag ISBN 3−503−06125−8 (D)
2003 Image in publication: Metaphern des Genozids Die Repräsentation von Geschichte und Identität in der Kunst Tanya Urys (Plath, Hitchcock and Metaphors of the Shoah: the Mediation of History and Identity in the Art of Tanya Ury), by Dr Cathy S. Gelbin in Gesellschaftstheorie und Postkoloniale Kritik, Unrast Verlag ISBN 3−89771−425−6 (D)
2003 Image of 1st of triptych, in publication: Metaphors of Genocide: The Staging of Jewish History and Identity in the Art of Tanya Ury by Dr Cathy S. Gelbin in: Performance and Performativity in German Studies, ed. by Caroline Duttlinger et al. Oxford: Lang. ISBN 3−03910−150−1 (GB)
2008 (11) Triptych for a Jewish Princess Second Generation discussed in article on Tanya Ury (in German) by Hartmut Bomhoff, Jüdische Zeitung (monthly), Berlin (D) www.j‑zeit.de/archiv/a…