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'Beastliness' 2011 is an animated video made from photomontage works in which a fantastic bestiary of creatures and women dance and morph, becoming each other and consuming each other. Kelly re-mythologises the feminine into the hybrid creatures that have lurked within the human imagination over millennia and through doing so questions the assumptions and fears that have swirled around gender roles and rules in western culture. She does so through the hyper-contemporary visual language of digital media while also referring to early 20th century photo-montage pioneers such as Hannah Hoch and the Dada movement. In moving from the natural to the unnatural and the supernatural, Kelly makes the point that nothing may be what it seems and that how we view each other is always mediated through cultural and social conditioning.
Details
Date
2011
Materials used
single channel digital video animation, colour, sound
Edition
4/8
Dimensions
duration: 00:03:17 min, aspect ratio: 16:9
Signature & date
Signed u.c. certificate of authenticity, gold ink "Deborah DK Kelly". Not dated.
Credit
Contemporary Collection Benefactors 2016
Location
Not on display
Accession number
340.2016