Finding a Pose
In “Finding A Pose,” I address female nude as a contemporary esthetic yet critical iteration of an idiom with a long historical trajectory in "Western" art. This exploration evaluates advertising and societal ambivalence towards the naked female in current U.S. culture. I capture on video unrehearsed movements of female volunteers in nude individually. These are ordinary, young, white college coeds who have been given no detailed direction except a simple instruction of “finding a perfect pose which best describes them.” I capture not only the final pose but also the repeated attempts to get it right from the beginning.
