
Still-Life with a Whore, courtesy the artist.

Still-Life with a Whore, courtesy the artist.

Still-Life with a Whore, courtesy the artist.

Still-Life with a Whore, courtesy the artist.

Still-Life with a Whore, courtesy the artist.
Presented as part of the 2004 Next Wave Festival
Julie Vinci's work is about representation and beauty, calling upon and questioning genres of classical still-life and the nude. Marks on her skin from underwear and rolls of flesh, coupled with trashy poses, shows a model with no reservations about her appearance. The title of whore rather than prostitute carries connotations that although the model appears outside societies conventions of beauty - she actually is in control of the image, and how the viewer perceives her.

Still-Life with a Whore, courtesy the artist.
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