Cécile Emmanuelle Borra

AA2A artist

Location: London

AA2A college: Chelsea College of Art & Design

Year (eg: 2006-07): 2012-13

Influences: Lothar Hempel, Cathy Wilkes, Isa Genzken, Josephine Meckseper, Orlan, Anthea Hamilton, Rachel Harrison, Keith Farquhar, Sylvie Fleury to name just a few.

Skills: I work in a variety of medias including film, photography, printmaking, ceramics etc., frequently combined with props & found objects, as I tend to resort to installation and sculpture.

Contact email: cecileemmanuelleb@yahoo.co.uk

Website: http://www.re-title.com/artists/cecileemmanuelle-borra.asp

More artists images: http://thecomposingrooms.com/exhibitions/

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About me:

Much of my work explores notions of “desire” and examines the commodification of the body but this is refined by a critical line of enquiry rooted in tropes from gender studies and feminist art history. My practice seeks to investigate the supremacy of the gaze by trying to re-locate it onto a phallic symbol, often to humorous effect. In that process, I re-appropriate popular mechanisms and vernaculars frequently deployed in the representation of the female body and hope to call into question the viewer’s own subjectivity.