Type C Prints

Approx. Height 50 x Width 80cm

The topography of the body is important to Clancy whose 'she carries it all like a map on her skin' 2005 denotes an intense and intimate study of a woman’s mouth. The mouth is not the artists but the mouth of a relative and as such forms a quasi self-portrait. Clancy has overworked a photograph pricking into its surface with a fine pin. The slick perfection of the photographic surface is broken to reveal an intense speculation on the nature of this particular skin and mouth. Like the beautician pointing out the wrinkles on one’s skin not as they are but rather as signs of what is to come, Clancy traces out an intimate course for the demise of the skin. Clancy creates a decorative pattern in the skin that is performed on the image of the body in an intimate, solitary process.

Written by Louiseann Zahra curator Expiration RMIT - Project Space