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PAINTING
Intimate Distance
Series of 9 paintings
18 x 24 cm, oil on canvas, 2013
These paintings explore a woman’s role as surveyor and surveyed in the confrontation of a gaze from both inside and outside, constantly part of placement and identity. The images use fragmentation to control the experience of looking, emphasizing most what cannot be seen while maintaining a desired distance, adjusting the personal parameters over which women often have little control.
18 x 24 cm, oil on canvas, 2013
These paintings explore a woman’s role as surveyor and surveyed in the confrontation of a gaze from both inside and outside, constantly part of placement and identity. The images use fragmentation to control the experience of looking, emphasizing most what cannot be seen while maintaining a desired distance, adjusting the personal parameters over which women often have little control.
40,000 Ombre
Painting, Installation
Long Distance, Le Murate, Firenze Italy, April 9 - 25 2015
This work comes from a collaboration with the Archivio Fotografico del Museo di Antropologia Firenze, where (rather problematically) “The Other” of the 19th century remains archived in approximately 40,000 photographs of minority cultures, catalogued and organized by type and location. The beautiful images clash with the context in which they were taken, leaving anyone who looks, over a hundred years later, extremely aware of a problematic positioning with both subject and photographer. 40,000 Ombre (40,000 Shadows) attempts to navigate this third gaze, transferring thirteen of the photographic negatives to painted positives, handling, projecting, and enlarging these identities into the same realm in which the viewer resides.
The paintings and resulting shadows portray the thirteen images in a light and context beyond their original construction, still changing within the finished forms. The gazes depicted are heightened by an unfamiliarity of the photographic device used to capture their likeness, while an alternate viewing space nullifies the power and distance a camera normally provides. To look is to step within the realm of this honest, searching gaze, aware that the identities, however archived, possess shadows as present and telling as our own.
Painting, Installation, Long Distance, Le Murate, Firenze Italy, April 9 - 25 2015
Long Distance, Le Murate, Firenze Italy, April 9 - 25 2015
This work comes from a collaboration with the Archivio Fotografico del Museo di Antropologia Firenze, where (rather problematically) “The Other” of the 19th century remains archived in approximately 40,000 photographs of minority cultures, catalogued and organized by type and location. The beautiful images clash with the context in which they were taken, leaving anyone who looks, over a hundred years later, extremely aware of a problematic positioning with both subject and photographer. 40,000 Ombre (40,000 Shadows) attempts to navigate this third gaze, transferring thirteen of the photographic negatives to painted positives, handling, projecting, and enlarging these identities into the same realm in which the viewer resides.
The paintings and resulting shadows portray the thirteen images in a light and context beyond their original construction, still changing within the finished forms. The gazes depicted are heightened by an unfamiliarity of the photographic device used to capture their likeness, while an alternate viewing space nullifies the power and distance a camera normally provides. To look is to step within the realm of this honest, searching gaze, aware that the identities, however archived, possess shadows as present and telling as our own.
Painting, Installation, Long Distance, Le Murate, Firenze Italy, April 9 - 25 2015
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