Sali Taylor "More Perfect"
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A waifish model stalking down a catwalk made of Venus de Miloes; figures from Botticelli’s Primavera posing with Greek Amagos Icons and voluptuous beer spokesmodels; a thermal camera image of Scarlett Johansson, Suri Cruise and a Disney Princess. Sali Taylor’s wit manifests itself in the clever juxtaposition of over five thousand years of feminine iconography. Drawing images from the Cycladic period to contemporary pop culture, Taylor possesses a visual lexicon that is both sophisticated and inexhaustible in scope. Her work investigates the paradoxes inherent in contemporary attitudes towards women, particularly the expectation for women to be simultaneously femme fatale and feminist, competitive and compliant, sinner and saint. The use of collage and digital manipulation further highlights the constructed and artificial nature of the compiled images. Describing herself as a ‘fauxtographer’, Taylor manipulates pictures drawn from fashion and weekly magazines, consumer culture, in addition to images drawn from canonical art works. An element of subversion exists within Taylor’s artistic practice. The artist slips copies of her works within the pages of glossy fashion magazines. Each ‘altered’ magazine is then returned to the sales rack or the pile in the dentist’s waiting room to be found later by the reader.
[Image: Sali Taylor "Scarlett Waisted (Scarlett Series)" (2010) Mixed media on panel 37 x 96 in.]
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from June 11, 2010 to June 25, 2010