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photographs by Janet Goldner
Bamako, Mali (West Africa), 2009
An intimate portrait of an open air beauty salon in Bamako, Mali, where women prepare for weddings, parties and other celebrations. Bintou and Aisha work long hours especially on the weekends to satisfy their clients. Henna is applied to hands and feet. It lasts for about two weeks. The henna process in these photographs is faster than the traditional Malian way of applying henna.
Janet Goldner’s installation, Ntlowmaw/WhY, was shown in ANTHROPOLOGY: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted. Artists explore the great cultural landscape of past and present. These artists take a look at cultures from the inside, the outside, and through the passage of time. Myth and religion are examined and turned inside out.
Janet’s small steel books were featured in Gallery 1.
Brooklyn Public Library hosts exhibitions related to cultural themes, books and ideas. Janet has been making hinged sculptural steel books with movable pages since the early 1990s. Multiple pages which are pieced and pierced by imagery and text result in playfully layered steel collages. The title is a bamana proverb. If we all wake up at the same time, it is because a catastrophe has roused us from our sleep. If we each awake on our own time, then the night has passed peacefully.
Collaborative Concepts was invited by Sandy Saunders to create an exhibition of outdoor art on his 140-acre historic working farm on Old Albany Post Road in Garrison, NY.
Bamana/Bambara features the ntloma/Y-stick form, an architectural pillar, in the form of a forked stick used as the support for traditional Malian adobe houses. They are often quite undulating in form but still provide the internal support for traditional adobe buildings.
The use of text to define the image is reminiscent of Islamic use of text. The sentences and phrases comes from Janet’s writings about Malian and American culture.
New York artist, Janet Goldner was selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Bamako, Mali.
Goldner conducted a three week seminar for visual art students at Balla Fasseke Kouyate Conservatory of Arts and Multimedia. Inspired by a process originated by the renowned feminist art critic, Arlene Raven, students examined the reasons and context of their artistic production in order to deepen their understanding of their work.
Tribeca artist’s massive steel sculptures resonate through two worlds
A feature article about Goldner’s sculptures and her relationship to Mali appears in The Villager, and Downtown Express.
By Steven Snyder
For 35 years, Tribeca artist Janet Goldner has been finding inspiration at opposite ends of the Earth. Intrigued by the tension she’s experienced between her two homes on different continents, Goldner exists as an insider and an outsider.
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