segunda-feira, janeiro 05, 2009

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Self Portrait Suspended I, 2004 - Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psyschological conditions.

Taylor-Wood’s work examines the split between being and appearance, often placing her human subjects – either singly or in groups – in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict.

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In a very different way, Taylor-Wood's series of works entitled Self Portrait Suspended also test the physical boundaries of the human body, this time using her own, shot in gravity-defying space set against the simple background of her studio wall. The artist appears recumbent, falling in elegant poses that suggest languor rather than swift movement, levitation rather than falling. The artist suspended herself using ropes with the help of a bondage expert, but digitally removed the ropes in the picture to achieve what she describes as ‘a moment of absolute release and freedom'.

in Sam Taylor-Wood: New Work, 2004 White Cube, New York

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