Vanessa Beecroft's Analysis
Vanessa Beecroft's work is a self-reflection on her obsession and control of the human body and the way in which women are viewed in modern society and how they feel about being viewed at. Beecroft concentrates on the more confrontational aspect of her work that analyses the connection between the audience and the performers.
Food is also an important topic in her work as Beecroft suffers from a type of bulimia which compulsively makes her want to burn off calories through vigorous exercising, this also led to her keeping a sort of diary of her daily food intake which links back to her compulsive disorder to instinctively to lose as much weight as possible.
Intimacy itself is a very vague term that stretches its meaning through a number of strands, one could argue it's the emotional struggle that one shares with the person they love or the enactment of love you act with your partner. In relation to art, I feel an 'intimate moment' is felt when you start creating familiarisations and personal awareness with what it is that you are gazing at and start to link it back to yourself. I feel this is where Dave Hickey started to pick up notions of intimacy while psychoanalysing the thought process that Beecroft was trying to discuss in the number of women who are …show more content…
Nevertheless how she selectively tries to get that specific aesthetic in both the casting process and portraying the ideal woman to draw in males attention intrigues me a lot as her intention was always to impose anxiety into the male heterosexual. However this also poses questions for myself such as why are the women always naked, why can't they be fully clothed? However it is possible that she may be exploiting the women without fully understanding her
Food is also an important topic in her work as Beecroft suffers from a type of bulimia which compulsively makes her want to burn off calories through vigorous exercising, this also led to her keeping a sort of diary of her daily food intake which links back to her compulsive disorder to instinctively to lose as much weight as possible.
Intimacy itself is a very vague term that stretches its meaning through a number of strands, one could argue it's the emotional struggle that one shares with the person they love or the enactment of love you act with your partner. In relation to art, I feel an 'intimate moment' is felt when you start creating familiarisations and personal awareness with what it is that you are gazing at and start to link it back to yourself. I feel this is where Dave Hickey started to pick up notions of intimacy while psychoanalysing the thought process that Beecroft was trying to discuss in the number of women who are …show more content…
Nevertheless how she selectively tries to get that specific aesthetic in both the casting process and portraying the ideal woman to draw in males attention intrigues me a lot as her intention was always to impose anxiety into the male heterosexual. However this also poses questions for myself such as why are the women always naked, why can't they be fully clothed? However it is possible that she may be exploiting the women without fully understanding her