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A tangential approach to the idea of the body prevails in BODY OF WORK. An element of remove characterizes the works in both process and subject, with themes of absence, reminiscence, loss of identity, dream or death.
Collaborative photographers AZIZ & CUCHER overlay living human skin onto architecture. Walls, corners, entrances and columns are lined in skin. The organic skin's blemishes are retained; even enhanced. Scars, acne, eczema and the lines and irregularities from exposure, poor hygiene and old age are left and not airbrushed out. No idealized beautification here. The skin is a stand-in for what lies deeper; a constructed self or the true self?
REBECCA BEARDMORE engages her viewer with haunting subtlety. The fragile and fugitive layers of image, text and reflective surface are in contrast to the more established practice of visual assault as she addresses issues of perception within a society engulfed in digital images and fabricated realities.
Female loss of identity, from both a self-image and societal point of view, underlies Muse by photographer SHANE FITZGERALD. A nubile young woman, filmed against an ebbing tide, dematerializes over time into a painterly yellow smudge. The body is also the expressive vehicle for cries pulled from the heart in FREYA JOBBINS' anguished etchings and lithographs. The artist's flesh is cut in sections in 'Piece of me' and is weighted down with all the expectations of others and what they want from her.
Acknowledging the technique of Victorian-era cyanotypes for recording botanical specimens without a camera, JULIA BOROS captures an impression of her own female form on fabric. In a related process, British photographer, CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW combines drawing and photography to cast thousands of tiny circles of sunlight upon a silhouette with a pinhole camera to create the ghostly illusion of a three dimensional figure. His images derive from spectral "guests" who recur in dreams recorded in his dream diary.
Sculptor NOLA DIAMANTOPOULOS explores the dynamic and invisible life force that surrounds us . Her transparent resin sculptures encompass the emotion and energy of the preparatory void that is the precursor to the mere idea of being. Her sculpted heads stare out - awaiting the divine gift of breath.
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