Hadassah Emmerich Dutch, b. 1974
Tigereye Totem, 2020
Oil on Linen
93.5 x 61.5 cm
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The lack of facial features in Hadassah’s nudes objectifies these bodies, but the repetition and the overlapping creates a distance of abstraction between the audience and the object of desire....
The lack of facial features in Hadassah’s nudes objectifies these bodies, but the repetition and the overlapping creates a distance of abstraction between the audience and the object of desire. Other than abstraction, what this repetition brings about is also slight variations, not only in colours but also in scale and texture. In ‘Tigereye Totem’ and ‘Tigereye Totem II’ Hadassah uses very similar patterns and forms yet the scale of Tigereye Totem II is almost three times of the ‘Tigereye Totem’. The bands of colour gradation in ‘Tigereye Totem’ are arranged much more tightly, with more abrupt shifts, creating a metallic texture as opposed to the satin look of the “Tigereye Totem II’.
