‘I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.’

Lionhead Doorknockers from Freckenhorst Church (Germany) Signed by Bernhardus

Maria Gordusenko presented at the Seventh Annual LAMPS Conference (Liminality: Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries — June 2021) as part of Panel 3: Objects and Perception.

Maria Gordusenko is a lecturer at the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) and art-director at the Rakov Gallery. In 2019, she successfully finished her PhD thesis on the forms of sculptors’ self- representation in German and Italian early medieval sculpture at the University of Edinburgh. Maria started her studies in medieval sculpture at the Ural State University in Russia. When working at the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Maria focused on the collection of Dutch, Flemish and German paintings and sculpture. She pursued a two-year research masters in Art History and Archaeology at Groningen University in the Netherlands. Maria had internships at the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Bode Museum in Berlin and at the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), where she worked on the collection catalogue of Northern European sculpture.

(Technical difficulties at the time of recording mean that the first few minutes of Maria’s presentation are missing from this video – Apologies!)