Post-Consumer Art
Description
Executed in: 1975
Medium: vintage, colour photograph, montage
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Vintage, signed and dated on the front, on the right side
Provenance
Private Collection, Poland.
Location
Poland
Description
Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, or Natalia LL, is a pioneer of feminist art in Poland. Her photographs, drawings, moving image works and installations have from the outset addressed the female subject in a patriarchal, increasingly consumerist society. As a result of her work, she was soon noticed by Western feminist critics, including Lucy Lippard, which provided her with international exhibition opportunities from the mid-1970s onwards. Natalia LL's works have been part of many exhibitions and collections around the world, including the Museum of Art, Łódź; the Ludwig Museum, Cologne; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris; the International Centre of Photography, New York; the Frauen Museum, Bonn; the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Regional Contemporary Art Fund of Lorraine, Metz; the Kontakt Collection, Vienna; The Stavanger Art Museum; Freies Museum, Berlin; Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Fotomuseum, Winterthur; and Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo.
The series Sztuka Postkonsumpcyjna/ Post-Consumer Art consists of a set of black-and-white and colour photographs, along with films of women eating a variety of foods in a suggestive manner: bananas, hot dogs, jelly. The models are sensual blondes with doll-like features, and they move in a way that suggest eroticism or even perversion. Through the repetition of a series of frames, the stages of their activities can be traced. Displayed in a matter-of-fact way, the physiological activity of consumption is juxtaposed against the sterile elegance of the meticulous photo print. From the beginning of her career, Natalia LL’s practice provided an independent commentary on vital social and political issues, but at the same time, she remained focused on her own personal problems, mainly referring to the traditions of body art. This series of works can be without a doubt considered among the highest achievements of Polish photography and contemporary art.
Exhibitions
Exhibited: Państwowa Galeria Sztuki w Sopocie, exhibition: ‘Oh no, not sex and death again!’, 2010 Reproduced in: ‘Oh no, not sex and death again!’, Państwowa Galeria Sztuki w Sopocie 2010, p. 157.
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