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Venus Cloud

Photocopy Collage
c.1986 (made)
Artist/Maker

Photocopy collage by Helen Chadwick, 'Venus Cloud (drapery with tassles and hands)', trial piece for 'The Oval Court', 1986


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleVenus Cloud (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Blue-toned electrostatic prints (photocopies)
Brief description
Photocopy collage by Helen Chadwick, 'Venus Cloud (drapery with tassles and hands)', trial piece for 'The Oval Court', 1986
Style
Gallery label
Gallery 100, 'The Body', 2016: This image is a test print for a much larger installation, which in part consists of an imaginary pool filled with swimming bodies, and attributes such as birds, fishes and animals. Helen Chadwick was known for challenging conceptions of the female body; here the photocopies of her nude body emphasise detail, resulting in an intricate, intimate expression of the figure. She called the images ‘echoes off the body’, and said, ‘I want to catch the physical sensations passing across the body – sensations of gasping, yearning, breathing, fullness.’
Credit line
Given by David Notarius
Object history
Trial print for 'The Oval Court', 1986
Collection
Accession number
E.652-2016

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2016
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