Engage Artist

Cecile Emmanuelle Borra

Artform:
Installation
Year:
2012-13
Location:
London
Influences:
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin, Josephine Meckseper, Isa Genzken, Orlan, Kjartan Slettemark, Judith Bernstein, Tetsumi Kudo, Goshka Macuga, Sylvie Fleury, Anthea Hamilton, Rachel Harrison, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lothar Hempel
Email:
cecileemmanuelleb@yahoo.co.uk
Project summary:

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. 

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. 

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