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Work Type:drawing
Date of work:1990
Materials:medium: pastel
extent: drawing

support: board
extent: drawing
notes: one of five

medium: 35mm b&w transparency
extent: photograph
notes: one of five

Measurements:height: 59.4 cm

width: 84 cm

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:portrait, childhood, identity
Collection:New Contemporaries
State Edition:(click to expand) (click to expand)
Description:
‘I like best what she said about all the images of the girl, which are herself, that they are monsters. That is a monstrous face actually. It's not about the beauties of these girls. Obviously, there's a very feminist issue involved, but I feel that the pastels, with the projections over them, have an interesting duality. The paintings there, but it's not complete. Once you project over, it becomes complete, but it's not, and you can walk in between and interrupt the image. Suddenly, it's only the half of it. That's nice too. There's something about the frailty of the individual human being having to do with self-projections and projections overlaid on top of oneself, in terms of other people's expectations and difficulties, between life as real existence and trying to live up to other people's ideals. What I like in her procedure, is what I find in many different forms and in any form of painting. I would say, that to approach ones own self, which seems to be monstrous in the mind, is very close to an analytical process. To approach one's own childhood, not by psychoanalysis, but by painting, is almost like a therapy.’
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Source:Selectors’ comments. “The British Telecom New Contemporaries 1990-91”, exhibition catalogue, Brighton, 1991
Date of source:1991