Mom & Dad

细节

Janine Antoni (B. 1964)
Mom & Dad
mother, father, make-up; 3 Cibachrome prints
each: 24 x 20in. (61 x 50.8cm.)
Executed in 1993-94
3

来源

Sandra Gering Gallery, New York.

出版

'Self/made Self/concious', Boston 1994 (another from the edition illustrated in colour). 'Janine Antoni. Activitats Esculturals', Barcelona 1996 (another from the edition illustrated in colour). 'Art Monthly', no. 218, July-Aug. 1998 (detail illustrated, p. 54).
B. Riemschneider and U. Grosenick (eds.), 'Art at the Turn of the Millennium', Cologne 1999 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 32).

展览

Glasgow, Centre for Contemporary Arts, 'Janine Antoni. Slip of the Tongue', March-April 1995 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour, pp. 33-35). This exhibition travelled to Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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拍品专文

Janine Antoni who was raised in the Bahamas, her father being a plastic surgeon, holds a fascination for parody and transformation, creation and procreation. In her hands, everything, from chocolate, lard or leather, to her own body or the image of her parents, is a raw material ready to go through alchemist process, alteration and renovation.
In her photograph triptych 'Mom and Dad', Antoni maliciously describes her medium as being her 'father, mother' and some 'make-up'. In this surprising masquerade, Mom and Dad have been made-up to look exactly like the other and to render a subtle metaphor on gender and sexual distinctiveness.
If Janine Antoni's approach is very much peculiar, it is still infinitely intimate as she moves back to childhood when she perceived her parents as exchangeable characters.