Fashion magazines proved to be useful materials in your work. Selectively cutting fashion photos, driving nails through entire magazines. How should I interpret these works?
The cuttings started while I was living in New York City for a year. I moved there in 2001, after finishing the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam for my then-boyfriend. New York is overwhelming. The pace. Its assertive inhabitants. And its enormous billboards. These became some sort of impressive advertisements anchor points for me. I used them for orientation, and they made me feel familiar with the city. At the same time the billboards embodied the aspects of NY that I dislike: the never-ending rush, and especially the focus on Commerciality. I started dissecting fashion photos as a way of reflection. In this way the photos became personal, and a part of myself.
There is also a hint of mutilation. Can your work be read as a rejection of the commercial industry or rejection of the ideal of beauty?
Partly, maybe. But it is also to expression of the attraction it has on me. I can find the fashion industry and the ideal of beauty disturbing, but sometimes can not resist the urge to buy a fashion magazine.Hate love. I once banned magazines, but found myself buying one a little later. It is like an addiction and like any addiction it is difficult to quit. The balance between fascination and frustration provides inspiration.
Partly, maybe. But it is also to expression of the attraction it has on me. I can find the fashion industry and the ideal of beauty disturbing, but sometimes can not resist the urge to buy a fashion magazine.Hate love. I once banned magazines, but found myself buying one a little later. It is like an addiction and like any addiction it is difficult to quit. The balance between fascination and frustration provides inspiration.
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