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| Annie
Get Your Gun
| 1994 |
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| Series
of 8 c-prints 77"x 42" Flipbook b&w: Out of Character 8"x 4" Audio track 8:00 loop |
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<< | Installation view, Galerie AxeNeo 7, Hull, Canada 1/8 | >> |
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Annie Get
Your Gun is
an installation consisting of a series of life size images of women manipulating
guns, presented in two groups of three and one group of two. Accompanying
the photographs is a flipbook made from black and white documentary photographs
taken during the photo sessions. It depicts the women posing and exploring
the guns for the first time in front of the mirror. Their stories and comments
recorded during the photo sessions can be heard on an audio loop included
as part of the work. For the Annie Get Your Gun project, I photographed
myself and women artists, in my studio, with guns. Most of the women had
not come in contact with guns before, but, like me, they were concerned
with concepts of identity and representation. To subvert conventional cliché images
of gun chic each of the artists and myself invented our own experience
with the guns by personally selecting our clothing, accessories, the type
of gun, and posture. My intention through this work is not to glorify the
guns or their users, but to observe how identity can be constructed through
media stereotypes and relationships we maintain with certain archetypes. |
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