Alexis Hunter

Dialogue with a Rapist, 197841 x 36.2cmPrice on Request

Details

Material

10 unique black and white photographs with handwritten script in indian ink

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork features a black-and-white photograph depicting a dimly lit urban alleyway at night. The composition emphasizes the long shadows cast by the streetlamps, creating a sense of mystery and solitude. The artist has used chiaroscuro lighting to highlight the textural details of the wooden fence and the reflections in the puddle on the ground. The subject matter conveys a melancholic mood, with the handwritten text adding a layer of narrative and emotional resonance. The overall style suggests a documentary or cinéma vérité approach, capturing a fleeting moment of urban life with a poetic sensibility. ...

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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. ...