Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer

Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer Instagram – This is nerve-wracking! Beginning to share my new works with the world feels intimate, and to be honest, scary. I think that’s because they are truer, more ‘me’ than my prior works.
Living in Italy, I am immersed in this pool of tradition, ritual, conventional and non-conventional spaces and forms of spirituality.
I know this last word holds a lot of meaning for some, for others, non-meaning, problems for even more. Am I spiritual? Am I religious? Am I part of the problem if I even try to look at these ideas?
How do I begin to even look towards these sacred spaces and practices that have existed for centuries, millennia even? What is a place of “culto”? Wouldn’t my time be better spent, more useful focusing on other things? But, would looking away be, in a way, being unintentionally more wrapped up in this belief system? As much as they are in reverence of this world, these people, these practices, and even these secrets, this new work attempts to be a critique of these environments, a commentary of our lives as they are informed by belief.
I could go on and on, but, for now here is “La Processione della Madonna Addolorata di Putignano”, or “The Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows of Putignano”.
Taking this to the framer today for the MA Interim show with @fine_art_csm, ‘All things current are found’ Open 11am–5pm, 10–12 March at The Chainstore, 64 Orchard Place. Trinity Buoy Wharf. E14 0JW London
#mainterimshowcsm | Posted on 24/Feb/2023 12:51:37