moma retrospective measures the political moment of human form. marlene dumas, mesuring your own grave. an exhibition over 100 works at moma. presents dumas exploration of identity through the human form. images of corpses, sex workers, disfigured babies. exploration of the grotesque. dumas is a striking individual, with a complex, understanding of and complicated relationship with identity. measuring the own grave, encapsulates the significance of dumas personal bioin her ouvre.140cm de dimension of his own grave. morbid image. her images become a legacy, a portrait of herself. through portrait she constructs her own image as well as explores the theme of identity. just as she explores death, she explores identity as origin, sexually.sexual imaginery, phornographi, erections, vaginas, pregnancy, birth, babies ... also takes a more existencial view of identity. it is the complementary idea of origin. often to the political and feminist. her outsider status and the multiplicity of her identity. she demonstrates the complexity of origin and politic identity, investigation identity through the idea of belonging, socially, politically. she also examines racial identity, sameness and diference. strong feminist narrative. through representing the body in her exploration of identity. how the personal is political in spite the fact of im a woman, i also like to paint, i paint because im a woman i paint because im a blonde
moma retrospective measures the political moment of human form.
ReplyDeletemarlene dumas, mesuring your own grave. an exhibition over 100 works at moma. presents dumas exploration of identity through the human form. images of corpses, sex workers, disfigured babies. exploration of the grotesque. dumas is a striking individual, with a complex, understanding of and complicated relationship with identity.
measuring the own grave, encapsulates the significance of dumas personal bioin her ouvre.140cm de dimension of his own grave. morbid image. her images become a legacy, a portrait of herself. through portrait she constructs her own image as well as explores the theme of identity. just as she explores death, she explores identity as origin, sexually.sexual imaginery, phornographi, erections, vaginas, pregnancy, birth, babies ...
also takes a more existencial view of identity. it is the complementary idea of origin. often to the political and feminist. her outsider status and the multiplicity of her identity. she demonstrates the complexity of origin and politic identity, investigation identity through the idea of belonging, socially, politically. she also examines racial identity, sameness and diference.
strong feminist narrative. through representing the body in her exploration of identity.
how the personal is political
in spite the fact of im a woman,
i also like to paint,
i paint because im a woman
i paint because im a blonde