Alexis Hunter

Approach to Fear: Violence Identity with Aggressor, 1976100 x 41.5cmPrice on Request

Details

Material

8 colour photographs in 2 framed panels

Description

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This contemporary artwork features a series of four close-up photographs of hands. The images showcase a muted, low-light color palette with deep purples and pinks that create a moody, enigmatic atmosphere. The hands are shown in various poses, with the focus on the details and textures of the skin and nails. The artist employs a distinctive photographic technique that imbues the images with a soft, hazy quality, adding to the intimate and sensual nature of the subject matter. This piece likely explores themes of human connection, vulnerability, and the emotive power of the human form. ...

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Artist

Alexis Hunter

1948 , New Zealand

Alexis Hunter used photography as a means of weaponizing feminist theory, critiquing and subverting the objectification of the female body and radically reappropriating it as a site for political activism. Hunter often depicted male bodies in the same manner as sexist depictions of women in advertising and media in the 1970s, and pioneered a technique of photographic sequential narrative, using photographs and text to make radical, provocative storyboards. Through gender roleplay and the use of fetishised objects as props, Hunter disrupted normative, entrenched dynamics of power and challenged the exploitation of gender stereotypes aimed at generating profit, a symptom of consumer capitalism. As well as displaying a legacy of radical feminism and its evolutions, viewing Hunter’s work today shows the artist’s anger, bravery and innovation in the face of a misogynistic society. ...