Francesca Woodman – Space2

“All the images that constitute the Space² series feature the artist’s body in a similar interior space. For this particular image she blurred and disorder her body, while in others she excused herself in glass display cabinets. The title Space² indicates a concern not only with the dimensions of space but with the in which space is flattened by photography.”

(Krauss 2000, p.162)

Space²,  Providence, 1975-1978

 

Her body against the worn wall, and use dark pattern of wallpaper to cover the chest and lower body, also like took the wallpaper to be her dark patterns of clothes, skirt; it causes the body looks like integrated into the wall. During my research, though the concealment of the way to describe the space as uterus. While the integrate into the wake, it is not only to show the nostalgia of the old house and the old memories, but also a symbol of the desire to return to the mother(uterus), nostalgia for the intimate relationship between mother and daughter.

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