Silhouette, 2018
Oil on canvas
180 x 120 cm
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Over the last 10 years, concerned over the internet’s uncontrolled effect on readings of the eroticised figure, Francine Scialom Greenblatt consciously adopted linked shapes as a metaphor for human coupling....
Over the last 10 years, concerned over the internet’s uncontrolled effect on readings of the eroticised figure, Francine Scialom Greenblatt consciously adopted linked shapes as a metaphor for human coupling.
Compositionally, three illustrations from ‘girlie’ magazines are pasted centrally in this work, each alluding to disparate pornographic ideals. Separating a powerful hovering cloud like foot above and dramatic intertwined links below, the title ‘Silhouette’ begs the question: are contemporary sexual mores a shadow of an eroticism of the past?
Compositionally, three illustrations from ‘girlie’ magazines are pasted centrally in this work, each alluding to disparate pornographic ideals. Separating a powerful hovering cloud like foot above and dramatic intertwined links below, the title ‘Silhouette’ begs the question: are contemporary sexual mores a shadow of an eroticism of the past?