Wow, I love Vasconcelos and I love the sound of her name and where she lives and her trajectory as an international artist.
From the interview I posted earlier I will get something that is very interesting/important to me at this stage in my practice, when I would like to play with objects and repetition.
She says that:
“To work with objects is to do decoration, is really simple, you just put things and it looks well. To work with ideas is completely different because then you have to find the right objects to go with your idea”.
This has been a good reminder. It also poses the question. Less-is- more? Keep- it- simple? More-is-more? Could this be depending on the issue and the magnitute of the emotion, how we solve different things at different times depending on the moment?
This statement has made me stop and look at my pile of lampshades in my studio and to allow myself to really think why I want to use them and what else, if needed, needs to go alogside with them. I know they resemble the female body to me, perhaps because of the pink/cream colour, the curves they formed and because they are pretty much like corsets. Their fabric glued to the meal frame to create the lampshade, like a corset squezzed in a woman’s stomach to create a slim waist.
I have received today the book Women, Art and Society from Thames & Hudson as I think this book will help me to postion and understand myself as a contemporary female artist today. This book explores the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy since the 1970s, and reveals how artists have developed and subverted the strategies of feminism with examples of some of the most significant international women artists that have emerged in recent years incluiding Wangechi Mutu, Pae White, Yael Bartana, Jenny Saville, and Teresa Margolles.
With this book, my ideas and Joana Vasconcelos statement, I think I will be sorted for the rest of the afernoon.
