The Three Weirds, 2010
| Artist/Maker |
Emerging from the punk scene of the 1970s, Linder is a groundbreaking artist known for her confrontational approach to photomontage and performance. Her work offers an efficient yet provocative way to deconstruct and reassemble societal representations of women and gender roles, challenging us to consider the complicity of consumerism, mass media and visual culture in shaping identity.
Her source material, drawn from women’s lifestyle magazines, retail catalogues, horticultural journals, cookery books and pornography are remixed to remove or subvert their original contexts. Photomontages such as Orgasm Addict (1977) (which featured on the single release of British punk band, Buzzcocks in 1977) and The Three Weirds (2010) caustically challenge the contradictory roles society assigns to women – the homemaker and the object of desire – and draws attention to the absurdity of these expectations.
Her source material, drawn from women’s lifestyle magazines, retail catalogues, horticultural journals, cookery books and pornography are remixed to remove or subvert their original contexts. Photomontages such as Orgasm Addict (1977) (which featured on the single release of British punk band, Buzzcocks in 1977) and The Three Weirds (2010) caustically challenge the contradictory roles society assigns to women – the homemaker and the object of desire – and draws attention to the absurdity of these expectations.
Object details
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| Title | The Three Weirds, 2010 |
| Materials and techniques | Photomontage. Photo-collage. Photography |
| Brief description | Photograph by Linder, (The Three Weirds), inkjet print, 2010 |
| Physical description | A photomontage featuring black and white photographs of three topless women, with magazine photography pasted on top. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | edition of 30 |
| Marks and inscriptions | signed on reverse by the artist |
| Credit line | Purchase funded by the Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project |
| Production | This limited edition print was produced for Chisenhale editions in conjunction with Linder's commission at Chisenhale Gallery in July 2010, entitled The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME . The thirteen-hour performance event, produced in collaboration with musician Stuart McCallum (The Cinematic Orchestra), fashion designer Richard Nicoll (also Creative Director, Cerruti), and dancers and musicians from varied traditions and disciplines, unfolded as an epic invocation of glamour and fantastical pageantry. Witch trials and beauty queens, ragtime and Euro Pop merged as live collage enfolding the viewer in a secret history of prejudice and dissent. |
| Summary | Emerging from the punk scene of the 1970s, Linder is a groundbreaking artist known for her confrontational approach to photomontage and performance. Her work offers an efficient yet provocative way to deconstruct and reassemble societal representations of women and gender roles, challenging us to consider the complicity of consumerism, mass media and visual culture in shaping identity. Her source material, drawn from women’s lifestyle magazines, retail catalogues, horticultural journals, cookery books and pornography are remixed to remove or subvert their original contexts. Photomontages such as Orgasm Addict (1977) (which featured on the single release of British punk band, Buzzcocks in 1977) and The Three Weirds (2010) caustically challenge the contradictory roles society assigns to women – the homemaker and the object of desire – and draws attention to the absurdity of these expectations. |
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| Record created | November 13, 2024 |
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