Viviane Sassen implicates Western beliefs and how they have imposed on the African culture. I
feel as if her work defiantly relates and can help me understand my
work better. I remember in a couple of my crits it was said that once
I show a face in my pieces it tends to fall flat. In Sassens work she claimed
that she normally abstracts the identity of her subject, when asked why she claimed
that "the gaze of the viewer
and about my own perspective” as opposed to “some truth about the photographed
subject.”
I think that it is
interesting that Sassen often abstracts her portraits since in art school we
are told if you want to do a portrait you often need to include the face.
However Sassen feels as if including portraits that give identity
one will begin to "prove a single
truth" about the subject. Since the work she is
making isn't focused on one particular person or of
an individual story this abstraction for the face generalizes the
subject matter and allows the viewer to focus on the body and how
it contours with the light and space around it.
After
reading and understanding the factors that Viviane uses in her work i understand
what Shane meant in regards to the fear of black bodies.
The interest in how black bodies interact with
light fascinated me last year however it was just touching the
surface and wasn't as complex. I hadn't understood the
language that I had been implementing, I was just interested in seeing
how african american bodies would register in nude studies.
I need
to dive into my topic and simply just start doing it.
Taking elements such that have been successful I'm previous
images and using them to help guide my future work.
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