Bower of Bliss

Madeline Kuzak

At Dungeon, Detroit, USA

November 29, — December 31, 2020

Bower of Bliss is an enchanted setting in the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. In her book Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia theorizes that Spenser’s bower of bliss represents a feminine space of sexual domination: a shady, womb-like enclosed area where the hero is seduced away from his quest and kept in a state of “languid indolence and passivity” by a sorceress who erotically drains his energy.1

1 Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (New Haven: Yale University, 1990), 187-88.

Train Tracks graphite and acrylic paint on paper 14 x 17 in
Bower of Bliss graphite and acrylic paint on paper 18 x 24 in
Car Door styrofoam, spray foam, foam coat, acrylic paint, peacock down 34 x 23 x 2 in
Fairy Door found object, spray paint 4.5 x 7.5 in

Dungeon

Previous Articles

GOTHIC PASTORAL:
Slouching in freefall by Underground Flower and Rhizome Parking Garage for Solo Show


Velocity Holomatrix Warp 7 — An Interactive Experience by Sun Araw & Theo Triantafyllidis

Instagram

Feed