The living canvas and performance
Alexa Meade takes the original concept of the canvas
and portrait to a whole other new
level. She’s created a whole new
sense of portraiture in which you’re still painted but actually literally (on your
skin) in real space rather than in the canvas’ space. The irony being that the
human skin is painted in the same style as it would have been on the canvas’s
‘skin’. She plays around with the consciousness’ embedded concept of the
process of portraiture, it’s boundaries and subjects, as well as interpretation.
Emphasised more by the transferral from an organic, real space portrait
performance to a superficial photograph. The portrait’s background which in
some works appears very
canvas-esque sits in real space but is now actually
physically playing a separate part in the artists and real time’s bigger canvas
consciousness. When she takes an archival photograph this shifts the concept as
she turns a three-dimensional reality into a two-dimensional photo space. She
however doesn’t limit the work to the ‘studio’ or wooden/canvas object
references in the background. Her piece Transit,
(2009) involves a painted older male photographed within the ephemeral contempo of the tube/subway.
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16 Alexa
Meade, Curated 2, (2010).
Photo of a
8 x 8 x 4ft installation of acrylic paint
on found objects and the performance of a live model
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16 Alexa Meade, Spectacle
Installation, (2010).
8 x 8 x 4ft installation of acrylic paint
on found
objects and the performance of a live model
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