https://manuelagranziol.com/new-index-1 daily 0.75 2017-06-23 https://manuelagranziol.com/work-avenue daily 1.0 2024-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1522749349954-QP6HHIPW8KFEN6XKU8HZ/image-asset.jpeg Work - Inferno, Knitted Photographs, 2008, 110cm x 120cm War and power have been recurring theme in Manuela's practice. During the Iraq war she was particularly concerned with the meaning of words such as ‘war’ and ‘peace’, and the different roles played out by ‘women’ and men’ in war time. In her work she questioned weather and why we, as individuals, are capable of such acts, Although we may recoil in horror at newspaper reports of atrocities carried out by human beings upon each other in the name of ‘war’. If we are the rational beings we often define ourselves as, why do we continue to repeat the same fruitless patterns? To explore these themes she uses photography, turning the media itself on its head, by deconstructing the conventional photographic form through the manipulation, cutting, bending and knitting of images to take the photograph beyond its traditional two-dimensional confines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1497885184470-QIIQHPWDUZQ1YX21D57H/Lago+Maggiore3.png Work - Zug Switzerland, Knitted photographs on Canvas, 55cm x 120cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1537106296271-WDISNEKAT7ZIPOJFY6UN/12Jul2012_7841.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1535377570407-VQ7EJ11DVC30RHQURTFD/IMG_20180822_183421-1.jpg Work - 125451 Words: A Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Paper (PhD thesis), 15 cm x 15cm x 15 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1497813950036-MV2V11G9XCDPCG3K0KV9/DancewithMe3.png Work - Save the Last Dance for Me, knitted photographs, Detail, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1524570821532-ZES56DK41TF43RLEAIEG/trypticwritingflat.png Work - Undone, 2001, Photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1537109925813-WDME33Q9VO7SGOJOX2KP/chairs3.png Work - Logistics of Power, 2002, Screenprints on Wood, Installation view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1498506936309-C5FYRB6G2KLTAZM29QS6/5greed-f.png Work - The Seven Deadly Sins: A Meditation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1497934630808-D8F10S2FWFK5P7SD4VSC/cubes3.png Work - Puzzled Puzzle of eight cubes. each cube is 60 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1583923478827-WPY0B1PJAZK4L4PDYNJJ/processed_IMG_20200311_112434.jpg Work - Chipping Away, 2020 from the series ‘Drowning Point’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1535458749681-IKFZ9YZU1V5TPU33L4GS/IMG_20180321_153350.jpg Work - Liminal Stage, 60 cm X 43 cm, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1583865060161-DMP4K42KIPV4A2XKH41V/Hayatfront100.jpg Work - HAYAT 2020 With this sculpture the artist draws attention to the plight of Syrian children. Hayat is an Arabic name that means life. Hayat could be any ordinary girl in Syria, not so different from a little girl in the “West”. Before the civil war, she went to school, practiced her faith, played with her friends and went about the business of everyday life. Since then, her life has been turned upside down. She had to leave her home. Every day is a struggle to survive and she is growing up in a world filled with violence, danger and uncertainty. The sculpture “Hayat” is part of the series “Language as Home” in which the artist explores how the different languages we come into contact during our life influence our own identity and self-perception. The movement of people from one home to another for different purposes, such as conflicts, natural disasters, employment or education, effects the way we relate to our mother tongue, which is often like the skin, unconditionally present and so easily injured. The encounter with a new language is a decisive experience and make us realise that the world looks different in another language than it does in our own one. As writer Herta Mueller suggests “behind every language there are other eyes”. This allows the discovery of a linguistic universe different from the native inherited linguistic space. The mother tongue ceases to be the measure of all things as its view is continuously confronted with the “seen differently” of the other language/s. This divergence between words and things then creates a space between languages, which becomes a metaphor for a fragmented identity. When you leave your homeland you also leave behind the comfort of the so well known mother tongue. Is moving into a different linguistic space an enrichment? Is it threatening? What are the implications if your mother tongue is the language of the enemy, or the language of uprooted and unwanted? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1718974123647-NN9RHR3YF038DFGQGJ97/IMG_20240115_142915.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1628851311444-DFSYNLT0P15TALMX9S40/processed_IMG_20210602_094235.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1522657531914-7B12VJNZAMYGOPLWY9WP/Brightonpng+copy.png Work - Brighton 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1535560944482-ASCJX1Z7PM279M03QW38/IMG_20180807_064636.jpg Work - Liminal Stage, 2018, 385 cm x 300 cm x 200 cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1719559892633-34Z85IATS412KFFBWQ5Q/Efrevetis.jpeg Work - Efvresy as a Child, Paper mosaic, 2024 In this sculpture we see Melety (stydy/scholarship), daughter of Ignosy in a very private moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1718981239665-0ZHBVAJA34RG487F7SGD/IMG_20230824_141217.jpg Work https://manuelagranziol.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-06-24 https://manuelagranziol.com/new-page daily 0.75 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5946c9ebccf210058d35a329/1498488872410-Y2DRLYDFYAMB6BOBZIFV/Untitled.png About Selfportrait as Stoic, 2009, 25cm x 35cm, Iron, Aluminium