I went to visit The Tamsynettes exhibition which dealt with the modern obsession with hiding the signs of bodily ageing. The exhibition was to represent the piecing together beauty!
'Tamsyn Challenger broadly concerns herself with the steady march of time upon the body; on her own, on those whom she loves, male and female, and on the desperate ravages inflicted on a woman’s form by the warping of beauty into an ideology, where the natural becomes perverse'
'Her work toys with the forces of modern popular culture as blind-siding. The nipping and tucking of whatever is at hand to under-pin an image and the passivity of watching to create identity often moves Challenger to reunite fairytales such as Snow White with their gruesome roots' (www.transitiongallery.co.uk)
I found the exhibition quite fascinating and to an extent playful (interactive in the sense there where no restrictions in the exhibition, your free to wonder amongst the limbs and body parts - private/public). The dolls appeared to have a breath of life about them, surrounded by scattered artificial wooden arms and limbs. The display did make one question bodily identity, that of our own how we look and feel about ourselves even how we treat ourselves/behave - even how we look at others. Dealing with the idea of things fading/disappearing/losing certain parts of ones identity.
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