Gemaltes Kaddisch

"On January 7, 2017, one day after the death of her mother, Marion Anna Simon began work on her painted Kaddish. What initially began as a very personal process of grieving quickly developed into an artistic concept: 333 painted and drawn self-portraits were created within eleven months--in daily notes, with acrylic and watercolor, pencil and ballpoint pen, oil crayon and pastel, on paper and canvas, wallpaper and cardboard, in lined exercise books and cheap note-pads. Marion Anna Simon's cycle explores her own face as a place of mourning and self-affi rmation, documenting an artistic ritual beyond the Jewish prohibition of images and patriarchal attributions to sons in the tradition of the sanctifi cation prayer for the memory of the dead."--Publisher's website