This Skin I'm In, 2002 |
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Installation view 'About Face' Australian Centre for Photography 2002
In this work Clancy considers the nature
of our skin as both the elastic exterior of our physical form and a
material continuously sloughed off and dispersed. Our society prizes
beautiful skins; cosmetic empires are founded upon that fact. Plastic
surgery can tighten loose folds. But at what point, she asks, does our
skin stop being a part of her? The installation contrasts delicate pink
inkjet prints of parts of the artist's face with small, randomly shaped
pillows onto which are printed enlarged photographs of flakes of her
skin. Part scientific, part gothic in sensibility, the work plays on
the viewers preference 'not' to know what lies beneath our skin or where
it goes when it leaves our surface.
From 'About Face' Room Notes written by Alasdair Foster Director ACP