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I am editing Wikipedia for the Wikipedia Project in my Introduction to Women's Studies class at the University of Maryland, College Park. This assignment will familiarize me with knowledge production and sharing online, placed in context with the historical erasure of women cultural producers. The female figure I will be focusing on is Lili Dujourie.

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1. Cooke, Lynne. 2011. "Lili Dujourie: Nature's Lore." Exposición. Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía, n.d. Web. http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/lili-dujourie-natures-lore

This website states that Dujourie plays with the sensuality and immediacy of materials. She puts an emphasis on the performative aspect of the artwork, investigates the relationship between nature and culture, and gives decorative and ornamental elements a central role. Her videos, drawings, installations and sculptures speak of the passing (and the weight) of time and move between the figurative and the abstract, generating a sensation of melancholy and searching for an emotional understanding of space.

2. Cooke, Lynne. 2011. "Lili Dujourie: Nature's Lore." Exposición. Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía, n.d. Web. http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/lili-dujourie-natures-lore

Lili Dujourie has installed works from two different series in the gallery. Initialen der stilte is a set of sculptured pieces composed of clay objects placed on thin tabletops and evoking organic forms. They could be described as a ‘still lifes’ that contain the desire to strip away, providing a poetic reflection on time and memory. The second series, created expressly for the exhibition, contains small papier-mâché sculptures inspired by the flowers grown for their medicinal properties in Europe since classical antiquity. Dujourie takes the part of the flowers used in herbal pharmacopeia as her reference point, recalling that during the Middle Ages, monasteries like the one at Silos were the custodians of this traditional learning, a part of their history that is often little-known.