THESE HANDS THAT KEEP BETRAYING ME — Judith Delgado and Anna Bochkova at Hinterconti, Hamburg

Submission
December 17, 2023

These Hands That Keep Betraying Me

Judith Delgado and Anna Bochkova @Hinterconti, Hamburg
December 08 — 10, 2023

“A storm in a teapot” is an idiom which is derogatively used to describe not enough dramatic events or an overreacting person. The term might come from an Ancient Greek idiom ‘thunderstorm in a tub’ or from Cicero who used a similar phrase in Latin. In our society one should keep a storm in a teapot, so it doesn’t spill around and influence others. But a storm in a teapot is still a storm, so, how to deal with it if an object carrying it, becomes too small?

The Exhibition ‘These Hands That Keep Betraying Me’ by Judith Delgado and Anna Bochkova presents a complex emotional cosmos, which elucidates different aspects and embodiments of feelings. Both artists reflect through their personal narratives a need to give an emotion a place. How can one express physically and formally something subtle and incomprehensible? Delgado and Bochkova enter into dialogue with characters of Greek mythology, in particular with Medea, her narrative and a question about how to go with a storm.

— Anna Bochkova