Tag: Body Image

• The Truth in our bodies: Reflections Sonya Clark’s Work

  Some time ago, I was introduced to the work of Sonya Clark. It encapsulates the truth, which resides in our bodies. Hair, for example, contains information about our biology that we often neglect or forget. Our predispositions, if you believe they exist are engrained in every part of the body. Clark explores hair in such a […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 28, 2010

  Art, Performance and Conceptual, Visual Arts

  Art, Body Art, Body Image, contemporary art, feminism, Feminist Art, Hair, human condition, re-appropriation, Sculpture, Sonya Clark, Textiles, visual culture

• Interdependence through Mika Rottenberg

  A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and watched Rottenberg’s new work entitled, Squeeze (2010). I titled part of my entry as ‘Interdependence’ because, coincidentially, I’ve been reading about interdepedence with others (and, even with inantimate objects) through a Buddhist lens and trying to incorporate that awareness within a meditative […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  August 25, 2010

  Art

  Body Image, consumerism, feminism, Feminist Art, Film, Gesture, Interdependence, Labor, Manufacturing, Mika Rottenberg, repetition, SFMOMA, Squeeze, Video, Video Installation, Whitney Biennele, Women’s Studies