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Gaze
複合媒材 Mixed Media
吳瑪悧 Wu Ma Li 1957
38.0 x 33.0 x 5.0 cm
Artwork ID 08800399
The female body has always been the object of male desire and gaze, and desire and gaze occupy a position of power between men and women. This work utilizes readymade objects as its medium an exquisitely gold leafed picture frame and two circular pads taken from women’s underwear and placed on seductive red flannel - to create a striking effect. This opulent image resembling a woman’s body actually stresses a woman’s self determination with regard to her body by authorizing feminine initiative in attempting to seduce the male gaze with an open and unabashed attitude. It raises a challenge to traditional ideologies of object/objectification and conventional structures of dominance/subordination between men and women. By establishing women’s position of initiative, it subverts the male assertion of authority derived from objectification of the female form.
Artwork Profile
Title
Gaze
Type
Mixed Media
Year
1992
Components
1件
Size
38.0 x 33.0 x 5.0 cm
Artowrk ID
08800399
Year of Archive
1999
Collecting Institution
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Artist Profile
Name
Wu Ma Li
Born
1957
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