Professor Cacoilo
Art and Women
January 23, 2017
Rebecca Belmore
Belmore uses the female body to tell the story of the pain inflicted on women of the First Nations. Her piece called Fringe, is of a woman with a slash across her back and blood that's represented by red beading. It shows a healing wound that illustrates strength, however the scar will always remain as a reminder of all the suffering.
In her work called Untitled #1,#2,#3, a woman in wrapped again in cloth. In this piece the woman is now wrapped in white and is shown in several positions. This contrasts from her previous work from above because even though a woman is still bound by cloth, this piece symbolizes healing through the use of white cloth as protection. It represents the new start of the aboriginal woman in which all suffering and pain are gone. It shows that the woman is now in control of her identity.
Rebecca Belmore is a Canadian artist who attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. She's known for her installation and performance pieces in which she embodies her views about gender, culture, and history. As shown in her work below, she uses the female body to portray powerful messages. Her work speaks from her memory and sheds light on aboriginal people. Her art focuses on issues that were faced by First Nation women who lived in post colonial society.
In Belmore's piece, White Thread, shows a woman being bound by a red cloth in which her hands, feet, and hair are exposed. This is representative of the trauma and violence specifically from the war in Iraq. It depicts western intrusion on the aboriginal people and shows the struggle of their culture's survival.
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Rebecca Belmore
White Thread, 2003 |
Belmore uses the female body to tell the story of the pain inflicted on women of the First Nations. Her piece called Fringe, is of a woman with a slash across her back and blood that's represented by red beading. It shows a healing wound that illustrates strength, however the scar will always remain as a reminder of all the suffering.
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| Rebecca Belmore Fringe, 2007 Transparency in light-box 36 x 108 inches |
In her work called Untitled #1,#2,#3, a woman in wrapped again in cloth. In this piece the woman is now wrapped in white and is shown in several positions. This contrasts from her previous work from above because even though a woman is still bound by cloth, this piece symbolizes healing through the use of white cloth as protection. It represents the new start of the aboriginal woman in which all suffering and pain are gone. It shows that the woman is now in control of her identity.
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| Rebecca Belmore Untitled #1, #2, #3, 2004 |
CITATIONS
Bear Robe, Amber-Dawn. "ACC/CCA | FEATURES." ACC/CCA | FEATURES. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2017. <http://www.aboriginalcuratorialcollective.org/features/bearrobe.html>.
This is a great post to display the variation of an artist style
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