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Lithographic Print on Paper
80 x 70 cm
Edition of 45
This distinctive print is inimitably the work of Christina Quarles. Developed from an idea taken from an earlier painting, the print focuses on an androgynous figure in a sky–filled landscape bisected by a folded plane in a floral pattern suggestive of a domestic floor or tablecloth. Quarles has said that in her work perspectival planes ‘…situate and fragment the bodies they bisect. […]. Fixed categories of identity can be used to marginalise but, paradoxically, can be used by the marginalised to gain visibility and political power. This paradox is the central focus of my practice’. Typically for Quarles, the identity of the figure in this print is deliberately ambiguous, opening up possibilities for multiple readings, from a winged, haloed angel, through to a baby, or a corpse buried in a foetal position, seeming to suggest both an ending and the start of something new, unfixed and auspicious. Quarles created this print by painting directly onto clear sheets of mylar in different colours. Each painted layer was then digitally tweaked, scanned and overlaid to create the final image.
This artwork is available through South London Gallery
Lithographic Print on Paper
80 x 70 cm
Edition of 45
This distinctive print is inimitably the work of Christina Quarles. Developed from an idea taken from an earlier painting, the print focuses on an androgynous figure in a sky–filled landscape bisected by a folded plane in a floral pattern suggestive of a domestic floor or tablecloth. Quarles has said that in her work perspectival planes ‘…situate and fragment the bodies they bisect. […]. Fixed categories of identity can be used to marginalise but, paradoxically, can be used by the marginalised to gain visibility and political power. This paradox is the central focus of my practice’. Typically for Quarles, the identity of the figure in this print is deliberately ambiguous, opening up possibilities for multiple readings, from a winged, haloed angel, through to a baby, or a corpse buried in a foetal position, seeming to suggest both an ending and the start of something new, unfixed and auspicious. Quarles created this print by painting directly onto clear sheets of mylar in different colours. Each painted layer was then digitally tweaked, scanned and overlaid to create the final image.
This artwork is available through South London Gallery