
Stefana McClure - The Language of Dissent_ —
Stefana McClure’s works engage through their minimal striking appearance, seductive use of colour and application of unconventional materials. Always comprising an element of language, the artist’s decisively female gaze bestows on the works a sensibility and presence that captivates audiences both in Europe and her current home, the US.
Bartha Contemporary is pleased to showcase selected works by Stefana McClure to coincide with ‘Women’s History Month' this March. Here McClure explores the notion of language as a weapon, through the subtle changes in meaning that occur in translation and cultural appropriation in her ‘Films on Paper’ series, the physical manifestation as battered stones wrapped in the poems of Emily Dickinson, or the equally poetic engagement with the troubles in her native Northern Ireland that lie at the heart of the artist’s ‘Protest Stones’ and ‘Text into Image’ works.

Stefana McClure
The Crying Game: closed captions to a film by Neil Jordan, 2010
Wax transfer paper mounted on Dibond
48 × 74 cm
18 ⅞ × 29 ⅛ in

Stefana McClure
Rakudai wa shita keredo: Japanese intertitles to a silent film by Yasuhiro Ozu, 2010
Wax transfer paper mounted on Dibond
46 × 57 cm
18 ⅛ × 22 ½ in

Stefana McClure
Bergman’s Religious Trilogy, 2017
Graphite transfer paper mounted on rag
18 × 23 cm
7 ⅛ × 9 in

Stefana McClure
La Luxure: English subtitles to a film by Jacques Demy, 2002
Pink transfer paper mounted on rag
18 × 23 cm
7 ⅛ × 9 in
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