photograph from the WHITE WOMAN series
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25 July - 25 August 1996: DIFFICULT TO LIGHT: The White Woman Variation #2 Linda Sproul Linda Sproul premiered a new work which consisted of a series of large photographs of the artist, sometimes echoing an academic anthropological photography (in profile, holding a measure) and others where she was echoing iconic western images: Madonna, Monroe, Keeler, Grable. These were displayed in a corridor formation in conjunction with large mirrored grids based on anthropological measuring systems in which we could view ourselves. See how we measured up. The work used/implied various gazes and ways of looking - and the images occasioned by and through such gazes - to set up a meditation on construction and placement. This work was a component part of the artist's ongoing project where she investigates the "symbolic and actual condition of the white woman sited in Australia". |
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photograph from the WHITE WOMAN series |