The Monograph “Sacred Sister” with photographs by Bettina WitteVeen is published by Verve Editions. An elegant suite of pavilions for the exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach has been designed by Robert Wilson, one of the major figures of the avant-garde, whose working process in this collaborative effort is documented in detail. Art historian Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D. traces the mythological and allegorical meanings in the essay “The Lateral Artistry of Bettina WitteVeen”.

Ancient myth and state-of-the-art photography are interwoven in this arresting meditation on timeless female power. During an extraordinary eight-year-project, Bettina WitteVeen took her camera to remote Southeast locales, including jungles of Bali, Burma and Vietnam, to find the face of ancient myth in the people of today. Her epic series of photographs embraces dynamic themes from Greek mythology (The Three Fates, Amazons, Hecate and Medusa) and Buddhism (the cult of Tara).

“'Sacred Sister' offers a very personal odyssey, and an unforgettable experience. Through Bettina WitteVeen's powerful photographs, the reader/viewer is welcomed into a timeless meditation on the divine in human form. These haunting, beautiful images of women and girls from very different walks of life […] serve as ciphers of states of spirituality, but also as invitations to heightened consciousness. At a time when so much photography addresses unvarnished reality or decorative stagecraft, WitteVeen's works amply reward us in their paradoxical blend of the authentic and the supernatural.”

Maxwell L. Anderson, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art

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ISBN-13: 980966035254
Publisher: Verve Editions