These objectified bodies and the spaces they occupy construct darkly humorous narratives, riddled with utopian delusion, futility, and isolation, an absurdity of reduction.
According to the researchers, women are expected to focus on love and romantic relationships and have sexually
objectified bodies, while men are expected to focus on sexual behavior.
The works in the international group exhibition «Un certain regard»
all objectify the body and test the boundaries between gazing and staring, to different degrees.
During a discussion hosted by the institute which saw the artist discuss the exhibition with Marco Delogu, Director of the ICI, Gregor Muir, Executive Director of the ICA — Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the curator Eugenio Re Rebaudengo, founder of ARTUNER, Cerutti emphasised his wish to
objectify the body whilst giving a new sense of identity to the objects depicted in his paintings.
Brown takes pop culture myths and narratives and animates them with her own bodies —
her objectified body, her seeing body, and her body of thought.
Not exact matches
We do this with the way we talk about women's
bodies —
objectifying them into categories of «modest» or «immodest,» «pure» or «impure.»
The Wrestler and Black Swan both explored embodiment, and painfully, graphically exposed what happens when we
objectify and abstract
bodies (male and female) from their connection to the rest of the human.
But the value of the nursing breast as a symbol of God's provision might need to be reconsidered in our own time, a time in which the technological capacity for, and interest in,
objectifying women's
bodies contributes to eating disorders among young women as well as to rape.
She recognizes that she and her
body has been
objectified.
Growing up in a sexist and sex - negative culture, we are all inundated with images and ideas that simultaneously stigmatize, sexualize, and
objectify women's
bodies.
14 % of all songs included sexually
objectifying lyrics, with female
bodies being
objectified more often than male
bodies (13 % vs. 4 %)
This is even further judged harder given the rise of the various social media outlets in today's world,
body shamming individuals and
objectifying people.
Sexually
objectified women are valued primarily for their
bodies, or
body parts, which are presented as existing for the pleasure and gratification of others.
Maimed female
bodies on the other hand are often fetishized and sexually
objectified.
From the Venus of Willendorf to Raphael's Madonnas, Rubens's raped Sabines, Picasso's jilted lovers, and de Kooning's man - eating females, the standard gaze was that of the male, and what it gazed upon was the
objectified female
body.
The artists in Amerika coagulate around textile and conceptual sculpture, photography, painting, installation and performance to interrogate discursive practices that undertake the
body that is formed -
objectified - abstracted.
While her male Surrealist contemporaries
objectified the female form, Cahun subverted traditional perceptions of gendered
bodies.
Wenjue Zhang: In my artistic practice, I make explicit use of my
body as a tool of power, with the idea that the female
body, which is
objectified by the male gaze, can redirect the domination relationship between man and woman.
Art history is littered with troubling instances of male artists
objectifying women — from Andrew Wyeth only painting women he was «enamored» with and «smitten» by to Yves Klein using women's
bodies as «living paintbrushes» for his Anthropometry series.
Although, as a woman I am not without the burden of being
objectified, I can not overlook the history that separates my privilege from the history inscribed on a black woman's
body.
Her heavily shadowed
body is both sexualized and not,
objectified and distanced.
This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's
objectifying caresses, to the full
body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.
Combining aspects of the mundane with images of sex acts, Ligon juxtaposes actual objects against that which is routinely
objectified (
bodies, namely female).
Dennis Oppenheim,
Objectified Counterforces, 1971 2:06 min, color, silent, super 8 mm film
Objectified Counterforces records a drawing of the upright
body's movement upon the earth.
«In this
body of work, I chose to focus on how that loss of information can be
objectified with the use of a camera.
Because she didn't want to
objectify the male
body in the way women's
bodies have been
objectified, Semmel says, she chose to highlight situations in which pleasure was mutual, adding that «women are not as much aroused by the sight of the male
body as they are by implications of touch, followed by sight.»
In TAK, the mouth can be seen as a symbol of a woman trying to express herself but being constantly
objectified and fetishised because of her feminine
body.
Raising questions on
body politics and the systematic oppression of the
body as an
objectified entity, the artists in the exhibition dismantle and redefine patterns for self - expression.
Ryan Peter Miller's
body of work
objectifies paint, playing with ideas of representation in objection to conventional hegemony of the image.
Throughout the gallery we also see paintings of women intertwined with lovers or alone, or even lying naked next to a lover in an attempt to reimagine ``... the nude without
objectifying the person, of using a specific
body rather than an idealized form.»
The female
body is regularly
objectified in fashion (as in every other sphere of social relations).
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While the exhibition features exclusively female identifying artists, many of the artworks still
objectify the male and female
body as a hypersexual site for pleasure and are easily consumable by the male gaze, much like the media this show purports to stand in opposition to.
The
body gives itself to the visible, to presence, making it something too easily
objectified, idolatrized — a tension embedded in the portrait.
The
body has been inscribed and interpreted, naturalised and modified (via cosmetics, genetics, medicine, photoshop, etc), radicalised,
objectified, politicised, sexualised, reconquered and annihilated, glorified and denied.
The Self - Objectification Questionnaire [19] measures the extent to which individuals view their
bodies in observable, appearance - based (i.e.
objectified) terms, versus non-observable competence - based terms.