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VANESSA
BEECROFT
VB53
9
November 2005 - 12 January 2006
For
the first time in Spain, CAC Málaga hosts a show
by Vanessa Beecroft, VB53, featuring a
series of photographs of women who are completely
silent, doing nothing, giving away nothing of
their personal histories. These images, clearly
of classical inspiration, evoking religious icons,
transmit a powerful sensation of evanescence and
timelessness.
These
women wear just sandals, wigs and false eyelashes.
They are portrayed in the photographs as just
another artistic element, far removed from the
reality that surrounds them. This distancing from
context is further reinforced by the accessories
the women wear, which are, to quote Vanessa Beecroft
herself, designed "to make them look more
like a drawing". But the peculiarity of this
nude work is that the models (not all of them
professionals) pose as if they were dressed, challenging
viewers to the point where they are the ones that
feel observed and intimidated.
In
each of these pieces, which call to mind the figure
of Mary Magdalene, the colour of the naked female
bodies is seen in juxtaposition to that of the
earth, and its texture, further heightening the
sense of ambiguity and provocation that the images
transmit.
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