Station 9
Falling
Acrylic
190 x 80 x 3 cm
Image courtesy of the artist
Station 9: Jesus falls for the third time reminds me of a Greek myth, Icarus and Daedalus and the corporeal and visceral experiences of life.
It is written that Jesus experienced great physical and spiritual pain when he “fell for the third time” as he carried the cross towards his crucifixion.
In the myth of Icarus and Daedalus, Icarus a beautiful, youthful mortal discovers flight that leads to his death, due to not listening to a warning from his father. In a way, falling can link Jesus and Icarus, as a symbolic journey from suffering to rebirth.
I am interested in that moment where fate holds bodies close.
Biography
Olga Cironis is an award winning multidisciplinary artist with a practice that spans over 20 years. Since graduating with a Master of Visual Arts from SCA University of Sydney (1996) Cironis has exhibited widely. Her solo shows include Mountain of Words/SPAN at Fremantle Art Centre, Opera House NSW and Signal Point Gallery SA. Listening Under Water at Perth Centre for Photography and Thessaloniki Art Gallery Greece. Into the Woods Alone at Turner Galleries and Geraldton Regional Art Gallery. Her group exhibitions include Sappers and Shrapnel at Art Gallery of South Australia, and Dead Centre that is currently touring WA.
Olga’s art practice is concerned with personal and collective identity in today’s Cultural Globalization. Using her migrant experience of dislocation, Olga interrogates our accepted concepts on belonging all the while destabilising our imagined safety. Cironis’ work has been described as viscerally uncomfortable, provocative, psychologically loaded and seeped in feminist narrative.
Meditation
I am not sure if I can watch this much longer.
In His pain, I see my pain,
in His falling I feel myself falling,
in His cross … in His cross
I am included.
He carried it for me –
for me, my enemies and my friends.
© Ruth Burgess and Chris Polhill
Eggs and Ashes: Practical & liturgical resources for Lent and Holy Week.
Station Information
- Year: 2018
- Station Number 9
- Jesus Falls the Third Time
- Exhibitor Olga Cironis
Reading
He endured the suffering that should have been ours,
the pain we should have borne.
All the while we thought that His suffering was punishment sent by God;
but because of our sins He was wounded,
beaten because of the evil we did.
We are healed by the punishment He suffered
made whole by the blows He received.
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