Miriam Cahn

mein gepäck mit den armen meiner großmutter tragen, 20.1.2022

In her pictorial worlds, Swiss artist Miriam Cahn (b. 1949 in Basel, lives and works in Stampa, Switzerland) anticipates the dissolution of social norms and opposes the traditional staging of femininity and gender roles.

The edition consists of two motifs rendered using a high quality printing technique on laid paper, which are almost indistinguishable from original works. It was created as part of the publication MEINEJUDEN, which was released on the occasion of Cahn being awarded the 14th Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen. In mein gepäck mit den armen meiner grossmutter tragen 20.1.2022 (carrying my baggage with my grandmother’s arms 20.1.2022) Cahn’s Jewishness symbolically appears as a heavy burden. At the same time, the artist recalls her own paternal grandmother, whose corpulent figure and strong arms always conveyed a sense of safety and care, not least because she was a single mother who had emigrated from Germany to Switzerland with her two sons.