»Live / Die II«

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Rena Small (*1954)

»Live / Die II«, March 1981

Item number 065-11164

Born in California, the artist completed her art studies there and lived in New York from 1978 to 1985. During this time, she created performative photographic works in which she explored the sexualisation in the representation of women. She also investigated iconic role models such as Christ and the cross. Her large-format Polaroid entitled »Live / Die« was created in this context; it shows two crossed anthurium stems and the artist's bent arm, which stretches into the picture from the frame’s right-hand edge. Small's composition varies the formal scheme of the cross, stem and bar. She thereby also deconstructs its conventional meaning, as the cross is not only a symbol of Christianity, but for a long time also stood for mankind per se, although this only meant male humans.

PolaColor 20x24, print date: Vintage / Unique
Image dimensions ca. 61 x 51 cm (61 x 51 inch)
Object dimensions ca. 72 x 55,8 cm (72 x 55,8 inch)

Mounting, Framing Archival cardboard mat 90 x 70 cm, frame on request
Annotations
Signed, titled and dated in the lower margin, former Polaroid Coll. no. »81:786:21« on the reverse
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