Hadassah Emmerich Dutch, b. 1974
Blue Mirror, 2019
Oil on Linen
150 cm x 90 cm
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The ‘Blue Mirror’ monoprint-painting is originally part of a series with other paintings entitled ‘Crimson Mirror’, ‘Rubicon Mirror’, and ‘Solar Mirror’, with corresponding colours, crimson, red, and golden yellow. The...
The ‘Blue Mirror’ monoprint-painting is originally part of a series with other paintings entitled ‘Crimson Mirror’, ‘Rubicon Mirror’, and ‘Solar Mirror’, with corresponding colours, crimson, red, and golden yellow. The four in this series features almost identical shapes of breasts, labia, and anuses yet different in colour, almost as if one same object is reflected by four mirrors with different interference colours. The colours are distinctly tropical yet unnatural and un-skinlike, dehumanizes the form, almost like testing the boundaries of desire by subverting the object of desire. And if we think of the paintings as mirrors, it creates another layer of meaning, which the painting returns, or more accurately, reflects back the gaze; as if we have woken up to realize that the position has been switched, we have become the exotic and erotic body, the desirer has been transformed into the desired.
