Abstract
Book published in 2020 to accompany the exhibition
LOSING VENUS
at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 4 March – 29 November 2020
What is no longer there performs upon us and we perform upon it. It bereaves us and we bereave it. Carol Mavor
Two large, colourful, semi-translucent banners are suspended in the cathedral-like main space of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Human figures, photographed at half-length, bring the classical conventions of anthropological photography to mind. But where we would expect to see skin, a face, eyes that look back at us, and perhaps fragments of a landscape giving clues to the location of the photograph, the image is erased and replaced by generic colourful patterns, leaving only clothing and artefacts still visible...
LOSING VENUS
at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 4 March – 29 November 2020
What is no longer there performs upon us and we perform upon it. It bereaves us and we bereave it. Carol Mavor
Two large, colourful, semi-translucent banners are suspended in the cathedral-like main space of the Pitt Rivers Museum. Human figures, photographed at half-length, bring the classical conventions of anthropological photography to mind. But where we would expect to see skin, a face, eyes that look back at us, and perhaps fragments of a landscape giving clues to the location of the photograph, the image is erased and replaced by generic colourful patterns, leaving only clothing and artefacts still visible...
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Losing Venus - Matt Smith |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Pitt Rivers Museum |
| Pages | 31-33 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-9163865-0-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |