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Sturtevant — Muybridge Plate #136, Woman Shifting Her Weight with Arms on Hip, Arms Behind Back
Sturtevant

Muybridge Plate #136, Woman Shifting Her Weight with Arms on Hip, Arms Behind Back

Sturtevant's gelatin silver print revisits Eadweard Muybridge's iconic motion study sequence, appropriating his systematic documentation of the female body in movement. True to her lifelong practice of repetition as critical inquiry, Sturtevant replicates the gridded photographic frames capturing a woman shifting her weight through a series of poses. The work challenges notions of authorship and originality, forcing a reconsideration of who holds power over the image and the body it depicts.

Medium
gelatin silver print

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Contemporary Art and Design Evening Sale

March 3, 2015

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Sturtevant, Muybridge Plate #136, Woman Shifting Her Weight with Arms on Hip, Arms Behind Back

Sturtevant's gelatin silver print revisits Eadweard Muybridge's iconic motion study sequence, appropriating his systematic documentation of the female body in movement. True to her lifelong practice of repetition as critical inquiry, Sturtevant replicates the gridded photographic frames capturing a woman shifting her weight through a series of poses. The work challenges notions of authorship and originality, forcing a reconsideration of who holds power over the image and the body it depicts.

Medium
gelatin silver print
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Postmodernism, Analytical Mood, Photography, 20th Century, Figure Study, Figurative Photography, Sequential Images, Conceptual Art, Gelatin Silver Print, Female Figure, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Late 20th Century, Photographic Series, Avant-Garde Artist, Sequential Photography, Female Artist, Black and White

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