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Lavatory Self-Portraits In The Flemish Style - Nina Katchadourian - 2011

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Nina Katchadourian travels a lot. She’s clocked up 102 flights since March 2010, mostly for exhibitions, projects, teaching and lectures. She could, as many of us do, drink gin and tonic, watch five films back to back and sleep. But Katchadourian makes better use of her time. Using her camera phone, she takes photographs of amusing still-lifes improvised from the objects around her. The series, Seat Assignment, includes more than a dozen sub-projects: in Provisional Shelters, Katchadourian builds edifices from crackers; in Buckleheads, she snaps portraits of her neighbours reflected in her seatbelt buckle; and in Sweater Gorillas, she has created abstract, simian faces from the folds of a black sweater. They’re the sort of daft things a bored teenager might come up with, but Katchadourian’s gonzo-style shots and the repetitive, taxonomical nature of each study lend her otherwise slightly silly photographs a certain thoughtfulness. Lavatory Self-Portraits In The Fl

"Ophelia, 3rd wave" - drawing for Openair Gallery, London road festival, 2013, Stoke

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 The drawing was placed opposite this commemoration plate reminding of the drowning of a tram driver who rescued a little girl from the canal but died. The location's choice was Behjat Omer A's, the artist leading the project.  Visual references :  Ophelia (2), 2013, William Oxer  Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1852  Ophelia, Alice Pike Barney, 1909  Arch of  Hysteria - Louise Bourgeois, 1993 Readings : Representing Ophelia : Women, Madness and the Responsabilities of Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter The anatomy of madness : Ophelia and the body Ophelia's Flowers and Their Symbolic Meaning Act 4, Scene 5, of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Katarina Eriksson Hamlet's Ophelia and Gertrude: A Look at the Modern and Ancient Woman by Lacey Stan The Frog Prince by Anne Sexton "The Frog King" article by Wolfgang Mieder 

"Ophelia, 3rd wave" - drawing for Openair Gallery, London road festival, 2013, Stoke

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 The drawing was placed opposite this commemoration plate reminding of the drowning of a tram driver who rescued a little girl from the canal but died. The location's choice was Behjat Omer A's, the artist leading the project.  Visual references :  Ophelia (2), 2013, William Oxer  Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1852  Ophelia, Alice Pike Barney, 1909  Arch of  Hysteria - Louise Bourgeois, 1993 Readings : Representing Ophelia : Women, Madness and the Responsabilities of Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter The anatomy of madness : Ophelia and the body Ophelia's Flowers and Their Symbolic Meaning Act 4, Scene 5, of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Katarina Eriksson Hamlet's Ophelia and Gertrude: A Look at the Modern and Ancient Woman by Lacey Stan The Frog Prince by Anne Sexton "The Frog King" article by Wolfgang Mieder 

Juxtapositions - research

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"Ophelia, 3rd wave" - drawing for Openair Gallery, London road festival, 2013, Stoke

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 The drawing was placed opposite this commemoration plate reminding of the drowning of a tram driver who rescued a little girl from the canal but died. The location's choice was Behjat Omer A's, the artist leading the project.  Visual references :  Ophelia (2), 2013, William Oxer  Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1852  Ophelia, Alice Pike Barney, 1909  Arch of  Hysteria - Louise Bourgeois, 1993 Readings : Representing Ophelia : Women, Madness and the Responsabilities of Feminist Criticism by Elaine Showalter The anatomy of madness : Ophelia and the body Ophelia's Flowers and Their Symbolic Meaning Act 4, Scene 5, of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Katarina Eriksson Hamlet's Ophelia and Gertrude: A Look at the Modern and Ancient Woman by Lacey Stan The Frog Prince by Anne Sexton "The Frog King" article by Wolfgang Mieder