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Jesse Jones on Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo's 'Mary Magdalene'
The artist and educator Jesse Jones talks about why she is drawn to this painting and why, given her love of film and cinema, it strikes her as a modern image.
About the artist
Jesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist. Using a form of expanded cinema she explores magical counter-narratives drawn from suppressed archetypes and narrative alterity through immersive film installation. Jones’ practice is multi-platform, working in film, performance and sculpture through speculative feminisms and Myth. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017 and has had solo shows at Mimosa House, London, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao. Jones is currently exhibiting a new body of work at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, entitled ‘Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon’, a 16mm film installation made in response to Artemisia Gentileschi’s masterpiece ‘Self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria’ (1616), as part of our National Treasures tour.
About the painting
Find out more about Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo's 'Mary Magdalene'.
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