The skin makes up the borderline between the outer and the inner world. Today we live in a total simulacrum culture, in which the skin and body are the only places we can feel a difference.

DESIRE, Gender, body and attraction

The work is about women’s history and about personal history and it is placed in a museum that functions as a spiritual treasure house of our time. Women’s time in the world of art has not been long, except as a model and muse for the male artist. The history of women is tied to the family space.

A exhibition like this is a place where one looks back and across to other cultures in order to make the culture in which we find ourselves more visible. By placing pictures from a personal album a “different” cultural history can be drawn, one which contributes largely to the writing of the official history of art.

The family photographs are like “brands” on the skin; because it is the body that absorbs our memories…

The pictures are not arranged in a time-line, but more as a cross-section of a turbulence.

The skin makes up the borderline between the outer and the inner world. Today we live in a total simulacrum culture, in which the skin and body are the only places we can feel a difference.

The skin is thin and extended like paper….a life that is only skin deep?

The work measures 180 x 450 cm.

1995.