Fragmented Bodies
Nine women artists working with clay
Curated by Lucia Pesapane
Samira Abbassy
Caroline Achaintre
Carmen Dionyse
Rose English
Simone Fattal
Carole McNicoll
Florence Peake
Jacqueline Poncelet
Holly Stevenson
Grotesque figures, odd creatures, anthropomorphic forms are opposed to classical images of the perfect female body. Charged with erotic energy, these works often reference genitals and oral or anal cavities, aligning themselves with a subversive register that asserts the possibility of another canon of beauty.
Physical distortions forge a link between the work on view, with grimacing masks and the rest of the bodies decomposing into amorphous masses.
The Earth/clay, long associated with fertility and the feminine realm, has been chosen by some artists as a preferred material. It becomes a medium that links ancient goddesses to modern-day heroines. Through it, artists create hybrid figures rooted in prehistory and the mythologies of ancient Greece and the Middle East, evoking what Robert Graves once called “White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death.”
These artists explore the female and often feminist connotations of ceramics, proposing a vision of a new matriarchal society.
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