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A wounded surface : dissolving the human form
Includes abstract.
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Michaelis School of Fine Art
2015
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| author | Palte, Lauren |
| author2 | MacKenny, Virginia |
| author_browse | MacKenny, Virginia Palte, Lauren |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11299 A wounded surface : dissolving the human form Palte, Lauren MacKenny, Virginia Fine Arts Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-110). This text offers an exploration into painting and metaphysical states of being and provides a framework for the reception of my body of work submitted for an MFA degree. In this project I am concerned with the translation of personal experiences to a canvas marked with oil paint. The experiences engage memories and stories mined from my family photographs, while also located in an experience of illness in my own body. Rather than directly illustrate these events, I have engaged with associated emotional states, such as feelings of loss, fear and uncertainty. My concerns are expressed either through fragmented or dismembered painted figures, or are engaged through the medium's materiality, explored and evoked through the visual and visceral qualities of a painted surface. An important part of my reading on carefully posed groups in formal family photographs is Marianne Hirsch's Family Frames: Photography. Narrative and Post memory (1997). Gathered at symbolic rites of passage, the family photograph offers ideal images of certitude, of familial togetherness and of happiness. In this body of work I reject the appearance of stability and search my family photographs for traces of ambivalent and unsettled bodily or emotional experiences. 2015-01-04T14:44:07Z 2015-01-04T14:44:07Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MFA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11299 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Fine Arts Palte, Lauren A wounded surface : dissolving the human form |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | A wounded surface : dissolving the human form |
| title_full | A wounded surface : dissolving the human form |
| title_fullStr | A wounded surface : dissolving the human form |
| title_full_unstemmed | A wounded surface : dissolving the human form |
| title_short | A wounded surface : dissolving the human form |
| title_sort | wounded surface dissolving the human form |
| topic | Fine Arts |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11299 |
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