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In Necklines, 1989, for example, Simpson places the words "necktie," "neckline," "necklace," and "neckless" beneath three different shots of a woman's neck. Each repetition and revision of a word that begins with "neck" suggests another situation this woman may encounter.
1 de dic. de 1990 · Active Media Group: Lorna Simpson; Guarded Conditions; 1989; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
And really, Guarded Conditions could be any of us: hiding our faces from group selfies, staring at our computer screens, being unknowingly ogled by millions of strangers. She made this the same year the Berlin Wall fell (1989), but it seems that she could have titled it “every single day of the 21st century, also p.s.
Guarded Conditions In this chilling sequence of photographs six women are lined into a row with eerily similar appearances. But closer inspection reveals small differences between each person; some have their feet positioned differently, while in others their heads and torsos are misaligned, creating an uneasy dissonance.
From Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Lorna Simpson, Guarded Conditions (1989), 18 color Polaroid prints, 21 engraved plastic plaques, and plastic let…
3 de abr. de 2014 · In 1989 Lorna Simpson made Guarded Conditions. It depicts a black woman in a simple shift and sensible shoes with equally sensible neck-skimming braids, her body rendered in three subtly mismatched images whose serial iteration proposes an endlessly expansive repetition.
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