Female self-portraiture: imprisoned spaces and minds
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Eviternare.v0i5.8088Keywords:
Francesca Woodman; Rebecca Horn; body; space; performance; photography; identity; phenomenology; abjectAbstract
This article examines Francesca Woodman and Rebecca Horn’s oeuvre, establishingconnections between their work, their work and their biographies, their artworks and their selves. In their art practices, they create prison-like and claustrophobic environments that reflect their inner selves, their traumas and their anxieties. Through the embodiment of space, they portray themselves, thus, blurring the limits between inner self and outer world, between body and space. By closely analysing their work and their lives, this article sets forth the idea that their work can be read as a dynamic and visual autobiography, as kinetic and psychological self-portraits of these two female artists.
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