Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Date
2008-05-01
Keywords
physical trauma -- art | psychological trauma -- art | female body
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/70831
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
The subject of my work aspires to represent the meaning of individual experiences of psychological and physical trauma. My work often appears as sequential images in an unconventional narrative form, and seeks to consider the intimate interactions and interrelationships between the female body and various objects such as fruit, oysters, pearls, or conversely, needles and ants as well as other symbols that serve to symbolize or objectify the female experience and female sexuality in western culture. The objects themselves are intentionally evocative and symbolically loaded in the tradition of vanitas paintings exploring themes related to repression, resistance, submission, resignation, and the meaning of power, melancholy, death, pain, and violence in the contemporary world. This thesis will explore these ideas and themes in relation to three recent projects from a two part series entitled Contraindications Part I: Oysters & Pomegranates and Contraindications Part II: Red Wines and Abrasion. The rendering of these works - their process and interpretation, and the artistic strategies and iconographic subjects that appear in the recent video will be examined with consideration for the art historical influences on my work. In conclusion, I will explain my future direction and intensions as an artist in the context of contemporary art.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Ha Na, "Resistance" (2008). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 49.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/49