![]() ![]() The viewers – outraged that artists who are women are most often treated like kids or “unworthy old ladies“, At the age of 80 or so, they portrayed themselves as they wished – brush in hand or pistol pointed at To both – there have been vigorous nude self-portraits by women painters, Maria Lassnig or Alice Neel, forĮxample. Against this world which condemns them to either witchcraft or invisibility – and often Griffin, sphinx, witches, and female figures who summonĪnimalistic bodies and esoteric knowledge are often associated with old age by a heterosexual male world stillĪnxious about its power. ![]() When you look at her hand on the bed, you see claws. So fixed, her stare does notĮxpress any recognisable emotion, and besides – the paradox is apparent – she does not see you since you have to Let me explain this nuance, which has to do with time-stopping and with you whoĪre watching, as witnesses, this gaze gleaming from beneath her charcoal eyelids. You have been observed now for a while whilst time is suspended by this stare – hers. Michele Lamy‘s ‘LIMBO,’ a contemporary still-life film by Michèle, in collaboration with the Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Art (CIRCA), is broadcasting every evening throughout November at 20:22 local time on London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights and across screens in Berlin, Melbourne, and Tokyo.ĭirected by Amanda Demme and Mollie Mills, LIMBO poses an un-retouched and tender meditation of female autonomy, love and vulnerability. Michele Lamy presents “Limbo” a contemporary still-life film
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