Description:
Visual description: This horizontal print is the artist’s self-portrait created as a composition of multiple repeating black line drawings of a naked woman with long black hair. These sketched multiplications across the white sheet are depicted in different movements. Those at the left lie down, and as the drawing progresses towards the right half of the work, new bodies rise from their supine positions. They grow in numbers towards the top right of the sheet. The nudes are distributed throughout the sheet space, with areas along the left-right diagonal containing more concentrated groupings than elsewhere. Two orange-red rectangular blocks appear in the composition, with a smaller one in the upper left area and a larger one in the center.
Label Text:
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.”
Tags:
figures; lines; nudes; patterns; red; self-portraits; sitting Subjects:
Women artists; nudes (representations); patterns (design elements); Red; figures (representations); lines (artistic concept); Self-portraits; Sitting position; screen prints Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2018.04 |
