The Maiden Element
Drawing, Photography
2013
Exhibition
February 2—March 23 2013
C&H art space
The research for The Maiden Element started two years ago with a research of the death of young girls. Death carries a tragic significance that gains an even more dramatic weight when related to children. The conceptual and situationist elements resonating in Emily’s work sublime the raw effect of this reality.
![The Maiden Element nr. 24, 2012 The Maiden Element nr. 24, 2012](https://emilykocken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-maiden-element-nr-24_Emily-Kocken_2012-480x478.jpg)
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Feminine objects and faces, full of light and darkness, fall, float and freeze in a white void. Guided by rules of a game with private categories, I may have found it, an inkling of what could be called the maiden element, something mesmerizing that has the tendency to surpass the boundaries of life and death.
![The Maiden Element nr 1_Emily Kocken_2012 The Maiden Element nr 1_Emily Kocken_2012](https://emilykocken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Maiden-Element-nr-1_Emily-Kocken_2012-348x480.jpg)
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![The Maiden Element nr 2_Emily-Kocken_2012 The Maiden Element nr 2_Emily-Kocken_2012](https://emilykocken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Maiden-Element-nr-2_Emily-Kocken_2012-348x480.jpg)
![The Maiden Element nr. 32, 2012 The Maiden Element nr. 32, 2012](https://emilykocken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Emily-Kocken_The-maiden-element-nr-321-480x480.jpg)
![The Maiden Element nr. 31, 2012 The Maiden Element nr. 31, 2012](https://emilykocken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Emily-Kocken_The-Maiden-Element-nr-31_20121-480x480.jpg)