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The Visitor, 2020

Inkjet print on watercolour paper

84 x 113 cm

Edition of 10 + 2 AP

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About this Work

Candice Jewell’s feminist works challenge gender constructions by abstracting and concealing her own body into pure form and object. Jewell stitches together elaborate coverings made from quotidian materials such as net fabric, make-up pads and crepe paper - which she then hides beneath, alluding to the alter egos and personas we create for ourselves. The images present ambiguous genders, removing the filter of a male or female gaze, allowing the viewer to recognise the desire to hide and protect the self, which can ultimately become a liberating action.

In Jewell’s latest work, the voluminous netted costume represents the errors made in trying to understand how to be your normal self, while the layers and twisted parts signify the lies and performances you've put on to become someone else's image of perfection, and only now realise how far from yourself you truly are. 

"The body has its invariably public dimension; ... my body is and is not mine. Given over from the start to the world of others, bearing their imprint, formed within the crucible of social life, the body is only later, and with some uncertainty, that to which I lay claim to as my own." Judith Butler from  'Undoing Gender' 

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