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Title
Loop
My
Loop
.
Alternative Title
Loop
my
Loop
.
Creator
Chadwick, Helen (English sculptor, photographer, and installation artist, 1953-1996)
Date
1991
Cultural Context
English
British
European
Style/Period
Postmodern
Contemporary
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Photographs
Mixed media
Allusion
Iconography
Symbols
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Dualism
Backlighting
Directional lighting
Hair
Human hair
Intestine
Organ (animal material)
Animal material
Animals
Subject
Sculpture
Photographs
Mixed media
Allusions
Symbols
Hair
Body parts
Animals
Description
"In the
decade
before
her
premature
death
in
1996
,
Chadwick
developed
an
iconography
which
has
links
with the
thought
of
Georges
Bataille
[…]
In
Nostalgie
de
la
Boue
(1990)
two
rounded
cibachrome
transparencies
were
hung
one
above
the
other
. The
top
one
contained
a
ring
of
earthworms
, the
bottom
somebody's
scalp
, its
center
imploding
so
that
it
vaguely
resembled
an
anus
.
Distinctions
upholding
the
human
above
the
animal
(or
insectoid)
no
longer
held
.
However
,
Chadwick
made
such
transgressions
playful
,
celebratory.
"
(Caption
,
p.227)
; "
Although
nothing
directly
comparable
could
be
found
in
Europe
, the
British
artist
Helen
Chadwick
echoed
American
concerns
with the
body's
integrity
and
boundaries
.
Chadwick
came
to
prominence
in
1986
with the
installation
Of
Mutability
at
London's
ICA
. Its
main
component
was the
'Oval
Court'
, a
low
,
centrally-placed
platform
on
which
blue
photocopies
of
parts
of
Chadwick's
body
,
animal
cadavers
, and
vegetable
matter
were
jigsawed
together
to
produce
a
representation
of a
'pool'
containing
floating
and
swimming
bodies
.
Chadwick
made
complex
allusions
to
'vanitas'
emblems
and
Baroque
iconography
,
showing
herself
, in
multiple
emanations
,
engaged
in a
sensual
immersion
in
nature's
cycles
of
fruition
and
decay
. By the
early
1990s
she was
producing
works
such
as
Loop
My
Loop
, a
back-lit
cibachrome
photograph
of a
sow's
intestines
intertwined
with
braids
of
blonde
hair
.
Such
works
challenged
conventional
dualisms
such
as
bestial
and
human
,
base
and
ideal
,
body
and
mind
.
Ultimately
, the
body's
internal
economy
superseded
the
external
,
consumer-driven
one
. The
impulse
was
perhaps
solipsistic
, or
narcissistic
, but
it
answered
a
yearning
for
experiential
authenticity
in the
face
of an
increasingly
mediated
reality.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.228)
Material
Mixed media
Hair
Human hair
Intestine
Organ (animal material)
Animal material
Technique
Cibachrome (TM)
Photography
Backlighting
Directional lighting
Photographic processes
Photographic techniques
Work Type
Sculpture
Photographs
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.227, fig.121)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Zelda Cheatle Gallery. © The estate of Helen Chadwick.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-09.jpg
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