Gerda Roper
www.gerda.roper.com
@gerdaroperart
Statement:
These two paintings explore continuing female pleasures: fashion, shopping and talking. These activities enable stories to be told and identities to be created. Information is shared, new identities are found in different clothes, personas are tried out through dressing up. There is engrossment in the revealing and concealing of self and delight in the myriad possibilities of body, clothing and material cultures. The unabashed delight of transforming oneself through fabric and shape is part of the joy and delight of shopping.
Meeting with groups of other women to eat, to talk and to laugh, allows for the release of experiences, confirmation from other women of female perspectives and voices. Whilst men have been willing apostles to such events, meetings of only women are still alleged to have something of the coven about them. And so they should, it is a magic they should retain. We return to these now sanctioned pleasures with a new awareness of our vulnerabilities and our strengths.
www.gerda.roper.com
@gerdaroperart
Statement:
These two paintings explore continuing female pleasures: fashion, shopping and talking. These activities enable stories to be told and identities to be created. Information is shared, new identities are found in different clothes, personas are tried out through dressing up. There is engrossment in the revealing and concealing of self and delight in the myriad possibilities of body, clothing and material cultures. The unabashed delight of transforming oneself through fabric and shape is part of the joy and delight of shopping.
Meeting with groups of other women to eat, to talk and to laugh, allows for the release of experiences, confirmation from other women of female perspectives and voices. Whilst men have been willing apostles to such events, meetings of only women are still alleged to have something of the coven about them. And so they should, it is a magic they should retain. We return to these now sanctioned pleasures with a new awareness of our vulnerabilities and our strengths.
The Consistency of Pleasure
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And so they Spun
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