About this artwork
This series, ‘A Time for Sorrow’, is part of Mahr’s tribute to her mother: “My mother’s memory remains in myriad things that surround me – whether in some drawing pins I happen to be using or a hundred year old tree I am passing by. Regardless of their scale, in reality, all these things are of equal significance when lined up in my mind”. Mahr’s dreamlike imbalance of scale is visible here with an apparently giant, glistening angel’s wing tied with a ribbon to a ‘trompe l’oeil’ nail in the tree. This offers both the uncertainty of memory and its fiction, and encourages imaginative response.
Updated before 2020
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title:A Time for Sorrow 2
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date created:1994
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materials:Silver gelatine print
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measurements:50.80 x 32.80 cm; paper: 62.50 x 44.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased from the artist 2007
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accession number:PGP 392.26
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Mari Mahr
Mari Mahr
Born in Chile to Hungarian parents, Mahr’s family returned to Hungary after World War II ended. She studied at the School of Journalism in Budapest and worked as a photojournalist in the 1960s. In 1972 she moved to London where she completed her studies at the Polytechnic of Central London and...