Day
3
Agnes Scherer (Germany) / Marmalade Day spoon of soma helps reality to go down
My refuge, my treasure, without body, without measure

Day 3 is a day of surviving, surviving of women, surviving of the inner child, and there is light beyond the light at the end, not only punishment. 

Agnes’ work often rewrites history into herstory and frequently comments on death and tragedy in seemingly lighter tones, yet it leaves a complex, unsettled feeling that is hard to address. The Bonbonnière (Wholeness Is Halfness That Is Dreaming) portrays Margaret Theresa, the Spanish princess who passed away at the age of 21 due to perpetual pregnancy, a story hardly portrayed in (art) history. The princess represents an archetypal feminine figure associated with fertility, nurturing, and the mystery of life, using perpetual pregnancy to explore themes of creativity, potential, transformation, and the cyclical nature of existence. Agnes kept Margaret Theresa alive in Bonbonnière, offering her refuge and providing shelter, light, and mercy to the past and future.

”Bonbonnière", 2021, plaster gauze, paint, styrofoam, Sculpture in three parts; overall: 145 × 127 × 84 cm