Evidence
- Digital Print with Hand Lithography
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12 x 12 in
(30.48 x 30.48 cm)
- Carolee Schneemann
The collaborator of this work is John C. Erickson. This work comes from the Femfolio, produced at the Brodsky Center. This portfolio is a historic publication bringing together twenty of the women artists who created the feminist revolution in art during the 1970s. The work is also published by the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions.
According to the 2023 exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA): "In her influential work, Carolee Schneemann employed a layered image-making process consisting in collecting pictures from the media or her own taped performances, and then filming, editing, exposing, and re-filming them again. In the mid-1960s, Schneemann focused on reviving a goddess-like imagery in landmark live performances. A parallel body of work emerged soon after, which the artist made in reaction to the devastation of the Vietnamese people during the American Vietnam War (1955–1975). This print is part of a related body of work by Schneemann begun in the 1980s, which employs representation of bodies from repressed histories of control and confinement and depicts cells in cancer- or AIDS-related illnesses. The print continues the artist’s reflection on unresolved histories of violence and includes three found photographs clipped from news reportage of vicious deaths in different world regions. The underlying hand-drawn cell-like abstract forms in vivid colors become a part of the translucent cutout found images and give them a new life. Evidence is a commentary on the mass desensitization brought on by globally sprawling visual media communication. It attempts to interrupt mass-media-like repetition and foster greater consciousness by making the meaning of each news picture vivid and whole, again. This print is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, among others".
- Edition: 5/60
- Created: 2007
- Current Location: Gabert Library, 71 Sip Avenue - 6th Floor
- Collections: Jewish-American Artists, Prints and Editions, Works by Women