Intersex Standing Stone
Intersex Standing Stone (2020) is a 297 x 420mm graphite, ink, acrylic ink and marker drawing in a frame. It is part of the Trans Neolithic Future series (2019-2021). These playful and visually enticing works can be seen as a personal interpretation of the various theories put forwards by archaeologists who propose that early European/Mediterranean societies were ruled by matriarchal systems.
In stark contrast to the grey hues of the stones in these works, Griepink chose bright green lichen as the herald of nature's wild wisdom. A viridescent film sprawling over the voluptuous and monumental stone configurations. We see lichens, a multi-species composed of a fungus living in a symbiotic relationship with an alga or cyanobacterium (or both in some instances). Please see the full series for more information.
The Intersex Standing Stone functions as a ritual sculpture that captures the rain and collects it at the bottom basin. Here pilgrims and celebrants can come to dispense the waters on their body, or use it otherwise.
- Intersex Standing Stone was presented at Te Whare Toi, Wellington (NZ), Garage Rotterdam (NL), Museum IJsselstein (NL), IMPAKT Utrecht (NL), MU Hybrid Art House (NL), Dat Bolwerck Zutphen (NL), Vishal Haarlem (NL) and Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam (NL).\
- Here is a video interview from 2020 where I talk about this series of drawings for IMPAKT Festival Utrecht.
- This drawing is part of the Re-Viving Matriarchy research.