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25 Jul

These artworks express the disorientating experience of ‘being in

These artworks express the disorientating experience of ‘being in
The colourful, enticing universe of Christina Quarles’ artwork is inhabited by not possible configurations of polymorphous bodies and multiple iterations of faces and limbs. What number of figures are unfurling here? What is that this torso transforming into there? To whom do all these feet belong?  Following her participation in last yr’s celebrated exhibition The Milk of Dreams on the Venice Biennale, the Los Angeles-based artist’s latest show Come In From an Infinite Place (at Hauser & Wirth Menorca) elaborates on her fascination with the experience of embodiment and all the enjoyment, trouble, pleasure and precarity integral to living inside a body. “I see this work as being portraiture – not portraiture of a body, but of being in your...
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25 Mar

These transgressive artworks straddle performance and self-portraiture

These transgressive artworks straddle performance and self-portraiture
‘Performance itself is an activist medium’: Eye Body is a gaggle show featuring work during which the artist can be the topic “Covered in paint, grease, chalk, ropes, plastic, I established my body as visual territory,” observed Carolee Schneemann, looking back at her 1963 artwork Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions for Camera. On this – one in all her most enduring works – the American artist painted her body and employed a medley of props for a series of performance-based photographs. “Not only am I a picture maker,” she said, “but I explore the image values of flash material I decide to make work with.” Adopting the moniker Eye Body, a recent group...
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