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Every Step A Lotus Painting
Belgium
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 94.5 W x 23.6 H x 1.6 D in
Ships in a Crate
About The Artwork
Attention: This work is a quadriptych of four paintings, each measuring 40 x 40 cm, composing an image of 40 x 160 cm. Every Step A Lotus reflects on the history of bound feet in China, a practice to limit the feminine territory to the interior. Women in imperial times were confined by both the physical boundary of the inner quarter, and the symbolic frontier of textile work. Their body was transformed to fit into an imposed spatiality. These deformed feet, acclaimed as "six-inch lotus", served as an objet of fetish in a morbid patriarchal society. I wish to confront the dark history of feminine oppression with women's creations, namely, textile work. The combination of yarn embroidery and crochet on top of oil paintings leads to a silent conversation of the space and the plane, the artist and the artisan, the exterior and the interior, the liberty and the prison.
Details & Dimensions
Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:94.5 W x 23.6 H x 1.6 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Shipping & Returns
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Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Belgium.
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Belgium
Sunny J is a Chinese visual artist living in Antwerp, Belgium. She received her degrees from the University of Rochester and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels-La Cambre. Obsessed with the Dissociative Identity Disorder, Sunny uses tempera painting, performance, textile, and installation to express her vision of time and space. She also pays special attention to the interchangeability of art and crafts, focusing on the educative and therapeutic functions of traditional crafts. She is the artist-in-residence in the Old School Residency program in Gorna Lipnitsa, Bulgaria (2015); Shangyuan Art Museum in Beijing, China (2016); AADK Residency in Blanca, Spain (2017); GLO’ART Residency in Lanaken, Belgium (2018), and Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China (2019). Her works are in multiple public and private collections in three continents.
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