Janine Antoni Analysis

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Janine Antoni, a woman of many artistic talents, is known as a photographer, performance artist, and an installation artist. Antoni describes herself as 1“a storyteller with many stories to tell”, and is greatly influenced by Robert Smithson and Louise Bourgeous. In her artworks Janine uses her body as a tool, leaving room for the viewer’s imagination to expand on those stories as well as develop their own stories. Rather than focusing on making a feminist statement Antoni’s art pieces display the tribulations, troubles, and difficulty of being a woman. By conducting research and gaining more information on Antoni and her works through books, academic journals and the internet I will prove that her works aren’t made to make a feminist statement …show more content…

3“The busts define the body as both symbolic and imaginary: a cultural means of self-articulation and a psychic image of the self”. In one point of view the effaced busts could also be seen to represent an eclipse of the self. These actions enact the autoerotic and narcissistic procedures of founding a self by internalizing an image of one’s own body. Another way of looking at Antoni’s Lick and Lather is as a pre-symbolic process of identifying oneself through the theory of the imaginary body. The actions she did enact an autoerotic and narcissistic procedure of founding a self by internalizing an image of one’s own body. The process of identification after this process is both productive and destructive of identity, by which it undermines its …show more content…

Due to Antoni allowing our imaginations to build off of the information she supplies her viewers it can also resemble the weight being lifted off after a tear drop falls. Although in the exhibition Up Against the projection has an audio clip of a wrecking ball crashing into a building as the eye blinks. In Sigh the curtain is still in a position that resembles breath due to the fabric stiffener. The emotion that comes to mind upon seeing these pieces are relief, sadness or frustration. With art pieces that have such a heavy emotional impact it becomes visible that she has indeed expanded her practice towards bringing emotion states to our attention as the

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