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OLOFSSON,
Annee
(b. 1966 - Hassleholm, Sweden) is a photographer and video
artist who creates portraits exploring issues around her
relationships with family and close friends. This photograph
is from a series in which the artist is pictured from
behind, wearing a skin-tight, flesh-colored shirt. The
hands that appear from underneath her "skin"
are her father's, gripping her elbows, almost holding
her in place. Tension floats through the image, as Temaceleste
critic Ana Finel Honigman notes, "[The hands] might
be embracing her, but her stiff pose registers discomfort."
The hands may offer security, but the fact that they're
"under her skin" implies that they are controlling
or overbearing. There is a silence in her photographs
which is haunting and intensely emotional. Honigman concludes,
"Olofsson powerfully depicts how the 'male gaze'
can manipulate and obliterate a woman's identity."
The artist attended the Royal Art Academy, Oslo, Norway,
and has exhibited her work throughout Europe as well as
in New York and San Francisco. 2002.222 |
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