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Ladha’s unconventional take on a self-portrait animates multiple versions of her body. She poses herself repetitively in the motion of rising, an act of self-discovery she likens to “trying to reach that state of nothingness as ‘space.’” There is a sense of empowerment in Ladha’s self-multiplications, which are not merely depictions of her experiences, but “the collective voice of the crowd. The crowd that does not stand as an individual entity but a collective measure, to illustrate the struggle between form and formlessness, abstraction and representation.”
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figures; lines; nudes; patterns; red; self-portraits; sitting Link to share this object record:
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