Juliao Sarmento – Mehr Licht
This image is part of a series of works in which Sarmento screen-printed extracts from philosopher Michel Foucault’s 1963 essay ‘A Preface to Transgression’ onto canvas. This essay examined Georges Bataille’s idea of transgression, arguing that it is only through limits that transgression can be achieved. In the painting the words read ambiguously as they are partially obscured and taken out of context. Such interrupted communication is also expressed through the faceless woman and blank television screen. Desire appears unfulfilled and the only gaze is that of the viewer, caught in the position of voyeur.
Here Sarmento visually interprets the philosopher Georges Bataille’s 1957 book Eroticism through a series of 25 photographs in which a headless female torso is gradually obscured by increasing shadow. The accompanying photo-text panels were written by Sarmento in French. The photographs convey the consumption of the body, which becomes the site of an intensely charged involvement for artist and viewer. In the centre an extract from Bataille’s essay and images of attractive women reflect the philosopher’s speculation that female beauty awakens desire.
This image is part of a series of works in which Sarmento screen-printed extracts from philosopher Michel Foucault’s 1963 essay ‘A Preface to Transgression’ onto canvas. This essay examined Georges Bataille’s idea of transgression, arguing that it is only through limits that transgression can be achieved. In the painting the words read ambiguously as they are partially obscured and taken out of context. Such interrupted communication is also expressed through the faceless woman and blank television screen. Desire appears unfulfilled and the only gaze is that of the viewer, caught in the position of voyeur.
Here Sarmento visually interprets the philosopher Georges Bataille’s 1957 book Eroticism through a series of 25 photographs in which a headless female torso is gradually obscured by increasing shadow. The accompanying photo-text panels were written by Sarmento in French. The photographs convey the consumption of the body, which becomes the site of an intensely charged involvement for artist and viewer. In the centre an extract from Bataille’s essay and images of attractive women reflect the philosopher’s speculation that female beauty awakens desire.
I have put this in my research for ideas on presentation... I seem to be drawn to repetition which could be very interesting if its done in the right way like here. The idea of combining drawings and photographs also catches my eye which could work well, using text and image combined could be a good option for my final presentation.
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