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South Africa
Digital, Ink on Paper
Size: 21.7 W x 17.7 H x 0.4 D in
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Femicide forest fashion photography The work reveals bodies rendered in hues of blue and grey, aligned with the decomposition process which occurs in the body after death. The contorted bodies in the work Forest (Figure 54, page 98) with their heads obliterated by black and white ink, references the oozing of fluids, which occurs at the bloating phase of decomposition. The work indulges in the discomforting nature of death and bodily fluids and attests to Grosz (1994:193-4) and Kristeva (1982:3), who regard fluids as a marginal condition and lurking crisis to systems and order (Grosz 1994:192). Grosz (1994:192) states that: corporeal flows … attest to certain irreducible ‘dirt’ or disgust, a horror of the unknown or the unspecifiable that permeates, lurks, lingers and at times leaks out of the body, a testimony of the fraudulence or impossibility of the ‘clean’ and ‘proper’. The work, Forest endeavors, to subvert the enclosed body of the male controlling gaze discussed in Chapter Two. This is also implicated by the window format of the work, which links to gaze as theorised by Mulvey (1975:4) and Berger (1972:64).
Original Created:2015
Subjects:Body
Digital:Ink on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10
Size:21.7 W x 17.7 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Ships From:South Africa.
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South Africa
Thelma van Rensburg was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1969 and obtained het Btech Fine Arts degree from tshwane University of Technology in 2007. Since completing her degree she participated in four Solo exhibitions and numerous gruop exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Since starting her art career she has consistently focused on the female form and feminist investigations on the feminine as Other. Thelma van Rensburg is currently exploring the concomitant link between femininity and death as manifested through the patriarchal male gaze. Her work can be viewed at www.art.co.za/thelmavanrensburg
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