Mike Parr
(Australia 1945– )
- Title
- The unword performance (11 female sexual organs)
- Year
- 1996
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- 12 gelatin silver photographs
- Edition
- unique
- Dimensions
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12 photographs: each 97.0 x 97.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2001
- Accession number
- 102.2001.a-l
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Photographed by Peter Moody.
"'The female sexual organs' of the title are words that are cut into the body of the bride. The 12 photographs depict stages of this process, as words like 'God', 'Father', 'Eye', 'Arm' etc. are cut with a scalpel and the 'Bride' enacts a sequence of poses to facilitate the processes of symbolic division". Mike Parr
- Bibliography (1)
-
Anthony Bond (England; Australia) (Author), Body, Melbourne, 1997, 148 (illus.), 149. cat.no. 119
- Exhibition history (1)
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Body, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 Sep 1997–16 Nov 1997.
