“In A Mythopoesis Tatiana Tavoukjian Ferahian and Maria Petrides take deep dives into the myths and reality of Mata Hari. Maria listens deeply to her reverberations from various sources including quotes from the collection of Mata Hari’s letters. Tatiana’s drawings reimagine & re-present Mata Hari through a hybrid of fantastic, talelike drawings inspired by Greek mythology.” — Shelley Marlow (Writer)

“In A Mythopoesis Tatiana Tavoukjian Ferahian and Maria Petrides take deep dives into the myths and reality of Mata Hari. Maria listens deeply to her reverberations from various sources including quotes from the collection of Mata Hari’s letters. Tatiana’s drawings reimagine & re-present Mata Hari through a hybrid of fantastic, talelike drawings inspired by Greek mythology.” — Shelley Marlow (Writer)

“A Mythopoesis reimagines and remythologises the figure of the archetypal Belle Epoque femme-fatale and transgressor Mata Hari – herself a product of self-invention. The artist Tatiana Tavoukjian Ferahian and author Maria Petrides mine their sources from far and wide to render the heroine/anti-heroine alive in a delicious dialogue between images – where female sexuality and an appropriated Southeastern Asian exoticism rub shoulders with creatures straight out of the nightmares of Goya’s Caprichos and Fuseli’s Nightmare – and texts, of remarkable technical skill, which explore notions of orientalism and eroticism, myth and mystery.”  — Vazken Khatchig Davidian (Art Historian, University of Oxford)

“The adventures of a free-wheeling, feminist Mata Hari let loose on the world.” —  Rahma Khazam (Paris based art historian and critic)

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