Carmen Truter

 

Flesh Text

 

June 3 - 24,  2006

Artist's statement

The exhibition deals with issues of spirituality in the flesh and the relation of the body to text, specifically with regard to discourse and the Holy Scriptures. Her work explores alternative inscriptions of selected metaphors of the Word into the flesh in order to revision ancient religious symbolism with contemporary relevance.

 

Offering

599 x 366 x 104 mm

Glass, digital UV print, Perspex

 

Sacrifice

599 x 404 x 104 mm

Glass, digital UV print, Perspex

 

Purity Cleaved

183 x 287 mm

Digital photographic prints, MDF board, Perspex

 

Scarification

2000 x 1514 mm

Perspex, digital UV print

 

Scarification, detail

2000 x 1514 mm

Perspex, digital UV print

 

Scarification, detail

2000 x 1514 mm

Perspex, digital UV print

 

Scarification, detail

2000 x 1514 mm

Perspex, digital UV print

Filtered Affections

120 x 154 x 46 mm each

Laminated digital transparency print, pins, beads

Filtered Affections

120 x 154 x 46 mm each

Laminated digital transparency print, pins, beads

Filtered Affections

120 x 154 x 46 mm each

Laminated digital transparency print, pins, beads