Liz Shaking Fist at Ray (1996)
Richard Billingham
I have chosen this image because this is form his serious of images that he filmed on the cheapest film he could find because I find it interesting to look at the surroundings that he grew up in, because his dad was an alcoholic therefore there were many aggressive photos of his family. He is reflecting back to what he has become through the two main people in his life which are his parents which is how it links into the project because this is how his identity has been made through how he was brought up.
‘Rays a Laugh’ here
‘Ray, his father, and his mother Liz, appear at first glance as grotesque figures, with the alcoholic father drunk on his home brew, and the mother, an obese chain smoker with an apparent fascination for nicknacks and jigsaw puzzles.’
Louise bourgeois
Arch of hysteria, 1993
Bronze with silver nitrate patina
83.8 x 101.5 x 58.4 cm
Purchased 2005
National Gallery of Canada
‘Her work always captivated with organic forms that at once felt close to our own psychological being and utterly alien.’
This links into the project because it shows a lose bond physically with there own body but has an outer body experience. This piece is about been inside your body but not feeling how it feels to be within your own body. This is photography of a sculpture made from a cast of a body. I really like this piece and the meaning behind it. I like the shape of the work
490 × 352 - Influential Sculptor Louise Bourgeois is Dead at 9
Louise Bourgeois, the elder stateswoman of feminist art, has died at the age of 98 of a heart attack. Bourgeois was known for her challenging and emotionally direct sculptures that erupted from deep psychological wounds she experienced as a child. Some of her most recognizable works, towering spiders built on thin, spindle-like legs, were transmogrified embodiments of her unpredictable mother. Bourgeois’ work was not easy material to dissect or to discuss, but as a woman casting a sexually fierce and intimate artistic line into the pool of overwhelmingly male artists, she was a revelation.
Dinu Li
This is about where they may have been in a remembered area from a memory and have used photography to capture that memory but no longer exists. Thos links into the identity project because it’s their identity and who they are and what they did in that moment but still kept that moment of who they were then. I really like the idea of keeping the memory and placing the image in the same place to recapture the moment.
The images become portraits of people whom we cannot see. It's only through the spaces in which they exist and the objects which they possess, that we can start building a picture of them. We will never know their real identity; this work plays on the idea of anonymity. Dinu Li is presenting codes and symbols, allowing the imagination to explore a theme.
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