I recently framed this work by Kelley Heider as well, which was also included in the Presence and Performance exhibition I curated. Part of a six-piece series representing the archetypal objectified American female, I unfortunately could only afford to buy one. Here, I've placed the ever-doting, care-taking nurse Kelley beside the medicine cabinet in my bathroom. Kelley is an accomplished multimedia visual artist and writer, currently without a website to which I can link you. Together, the framing of Kelley's and Corkey's works (see below) made for a weekend full of productive activity and provocative nostalgia.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Nurse
I recently framed this work by Kelley Heider as well, which was also included in the Presence and Performance exhibition I curated. Part of a six-piece series representing the archetypal objectified American female, I unfortunately could only afford to buy one. Here, I've placed the ever-doting, care-taking nurse Kelley beside the medicine cabinet in my bathroom. Kelley is an accomplished multimedia visual artist and writer, currently without a website to which I can link you. Together, the framing of Kelley's and Corkey's works (see below) made for a weekend full of productive activity and provocative nostalgia.
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It's interesting that this be read as both critique and object-of-critique: the image can be read both thoughtfully, a criticism of objectification, and it can be taken at face value as simply an objectifying image.
My grandfather sits quietly and pensive in that dirty fake leather white chair that was in my room in Bekins, and still adorns my space. He adjusts his glasses and peeks again at the far wall as if there is a dance occurring on it. “I don’t get it,” he says. “Don’t get what?” I reply. He was before silent and his confusion is as possible as anything. What is “presence and performance?” He skips asking about the “queer feminist bodies.” “It’s a show my friend curated,” I said. “Oh.” Was as far as he could get thereafter, looking at the books on my shelf nearby.
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