“Isn’t jealousy a subject once classically used and discussed in art, and now frowned upon?” A friend asked when I started to talk about the project we envisioned between Galerie Noah Klink and Parliament. She referred to a celebrated series of paintings on jealousy by Edvard Munch, in which jealousy is depicted in classic romantic terms by being triangular - the two lovers and the jealous third part. The emotions are depicted in the complimentary colors green, associated with jealousy and envy, and red, associated with love and desire. She continued: “Munch, living within a bohemian circle of artists dedicated to free love and sexuality, saw the bright and dark sides of love and desire. Inseparably, one does not exist without the other. Now, I guess, we are expected to be able to love without jealousy and insecurity somehow.”
