Ghada AmerGIRLS IN WHITE AND GOLD, 2024
Ghada Amer has been committed to exploring issues surrounding women– the politics of their representation and their cross cultural perception. Amer’s wide-ranging, daring art practice that spans over three decades, works across many media including painting, installation and sculpture. Many works in Amer’s oeuvre begin with female nude images appropriated from pornographic magazines. While typically viewed as a vehicle for male pleasure, Amer’s works transform them into emblems of women in states of euphoria, ecstasy, and liberation.
'GIRLS IN WHITE AND GOLD' (2024), was made using giant flattened cardboard boxes shaped as screens, which were later cast in bronze. On each freestanding box, Ghada Amer displays prominently and on each side images of hypersexualized women’s bodies. Although rendered in bronze, they retain the form and memory of the cardboard boxes from which they were made.
