Saturday 13 September 2014

Francesca Woodman - Victoria Miro

Francesca Woodman,  from Polka Dot Series, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
Francesca Woodman: Zigzag is at Victoria Miro Mayfair until 4 October 2014.
Precocious and tragic, Woodman made her first photographic self-portrait aged 13 but died aged just  22 in 1981. In her brief career she made some 800 photographs of great subtlety and originality. She appears in her self-portraits as an unsettling presence - sometimes vulnerable, sometimes naked and sometimes like a ghost in abandoned rooms. 
Read an article by Rachel Cooke.
(NB the images here are my selection from her oeuvre and not necessarily included in the Victoria Miro show.)
Francesca Woodman,  Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
Francesca Woodman,  Untitled, Rome, 1977-8
Francesca Woodman,  Space2, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-8
Francesca Woodman,  Untitled, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1980
Francesca Woodman,  Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
Francesca Woodman,  Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976
Francesca Woodman,  Untitled, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1980

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