Portraits as portraits of other women (working title)
Work started during Covid isolation that plays with adaptation, intertextuality and questions of 'fidelity'. Applying the same costume and make-up to my daughter and myself, I was equally fascinated by our likeness as our differences. Inspired by the various cultural institutions calling for re-creation of artworks in early 2020, I wanted to explore the difference between adapting a painting and adapting a photograph. Did one ask more than the other? I was interested in transitions between media and questions around fidelity, but also in the relationship between our images as mother and daughter, as well how the images function within the cycle of reproductions and remakes. The series is ongoing.
Images are;
Isis as Anne Marie Zilberman’s “Larme d'or” (date unknown), 2020
Self-portrait as Wladislav T. Benda’s “Pintura” (date unknown), 2020
Isis as Wladislav T. Benda’s “Pintura” (date unknown), 2020
Self-portrait as Charlie Engman's "Mom" (date unknown) , 2020
Isis as Charlie Engman's "Mom"(date unknown), 2020
Self-portrait as “self-portrait by Frida Kahlo 1948”, 2020
Isis as “self-portrait by Frida Kahlo 1948”, 2020
Self-portrait as Annie Leibovitz’ “Meryl Streep, New York City, 1981”, 2020