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31 Dec

Sasha Gordon’s self-portraits are designed to make you uncomfortable

In her latest exhibition at Hands of Others, currently showing at Jeffrey Deitch in Recent York, Sasha Gordon uses absurdist self-portraiture to focus on the conflicting issues in her personal life. Nevertheless, as an alternative of allowing her audience to sympathise with the stark emotions in her paintings, Gordon’s work is supposed to perturb us; there's a way of unnerving voyeurism when viewing these images as if we're seeing something we should always not.  “I’ve all the time felt really uncomfortable [in my body],” the Brooklyn-based artist tells Dazed. “I need the viewer to feel the identical discomfort of being on this body that’s being critiqued and checked out on a regular basis. I used to be all the time very...
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