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at Randolph Street Gallery, Tamaki Makau Rau, Aotearoa
Anita Jacobsen
Samoan
Anita uses herself as a model within her staged photographic
images.
Referencing our culturally accumulated perceptions of the dusky maiden,
she employs a visual language which emphasises the constructed nature
of
the presentation of self and the photographic image. Anita's work takes
on the challenge of representing self while resisting the perpetuation
of stereotype. As both artist and model she has gained licence to roam
across a range of roles, while drawing attention to images that exploit
cliche as a means of critiquing stereotypical representations of women.
New
2 Day 2007
Digital print
100 x 74 cm
Self
Portrait # 1 & # 2, 2006
Digital Print,
78.5 x 53.5 cm, framed
The
Discolouration of Fascination, 2007
Hand coloured digital print
60 x 42 cm