In Progress

Okay, this is the beginning of a project that i don't understand and am not sure where it will end up. I think that's good. Continuing where the Eva Hesse erasure left off, in terms of documentation, authorship, art by women, etc etc...Again, i'm really not sure and i had to just get this started otherwise i would think myself to death (not the first time). One thing the Eva Hesse Documentation got wrong in my opinion was that i was doing the opposite tactic ("removing" her work in order to preserve or call attention to it, and to show how precarious female art in art history actually is), but carefully recording the action truthfully. So i started thinking about fictive documentation, proving something that is false, or showing a lie. Or something. The first method for this is:
- i set up a "stage" in my studio, and created a prop canvas.
- i asked the four male members of my grad class to come in individually and paint (repaint) one of my paintings from 2001, using only a postcard for reference. They wear their own clothes that they happened to be wearing that day.
- i photograph them working.
- in the end i think i'm going to display the original painting (which is several times bigger than the prop) with the photos. And that's all i'm going to say about that. But final review is in a week so it will definitely get figured out soon. Here are the first two sessions. Many thanks to Jacob and Ziad.