{"id":62344,"date":"2026-03-06T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/?p=62344"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:29:57","slug":"before-she-becomes-an-icon-she-is-someone-s-child-before-she-carries-the-world-she-carries-her-own-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/before-she-becomes-an-icon-she-is-someone-s-child-before-she-carries-the-world-she-carries-her-own-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Before She becomes an icon, She is someone\u2019s child. Before She carries the world, She carries her own love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Madonna with Two Infants, Photo by Il Gurn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The project crosses the threshold between the divine and the domestic, reframing the Fourteen Stations<\/strong>, traditionally a meditation on suffering, through the lens of contemporary motherhood, displacement and the \u201csacred weight\u201d of the everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the heart of the exhibition are the Young Madonnas<\/em> \u2014 seven Italian glass figurines from the 1970s, mass-produced and sentimental, originally titled Teddy and Me<\/em>. These found objects capture a moment of radical innocence, when caring is still a game, yet within that play the echoes of future love already sound. The process of repainting them hallows what was latent all along; Kiparis imagines it as an act of re-consecration, a rehearsal for the sacred labor of love to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on her background in architecture, Anna Kiparis investigates human-made interiors with a particular focus on sacred spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Anna Kiparis (b. 1990, Tashkent, USSR; based in London, UK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Anna is currently developing her own medium, bringing together three principal strands of ecclesiastical art: painting, sculpture and stained glass. Over several years, she has also initiated author-led collaborations with artists, writers and cultural practitioners, revealing hidden zones of interaction between different artistic disciplines. Her previous projects include A Time to Gather Stones<\/em> at The Crypt Gallery, London and Play Against War<\/em> at Rudolf Steiner House, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her current commission for Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead, extends this enquiry through the Fourteen Stations of the Cross as experienced by a contemporary congregation. The project is developed in collaboration with the Reverend Dr Catriona Laing of the Church of England.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kiparis with Revd Catriona Laing,<\/em> Photo by Il Gurn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Curator: Il Gurn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website: https:\/\/stationsoflife.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every Madonna Was Once a Child opens March 6 @6pm, Arc Space<\/strong>, 13 Tottenham Mews, 2nd Floor, London W1T 4AQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On view until 12 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site-specific commission for Emmanuel Church West Hampstead will be on view throughout Lent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From 6\u201312 March artist Anna Kiparis presents Every Madonna Was Once a Child, a solo exhibition at Arc Space and conceptual prelude to her major site-specific commission for Emmanuel Church West Hampstead. While the full commission will inhabit the church throughout Lent, this exhibition offers a first encounter with the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"type_post":[184],"column":[],"class_list":["post-62344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62352,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62344\/revisions\/62352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62344"},{"taxonomy":"type_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_post?post=62344"},{"taxonomy":"column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londoncult.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column?post=62344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}