Object number2024.7.2
Assembling
Date2021
Artist
Vanessa Woods
CultureAmerican
MediumPhotographic collage
DimensionsMount: 13 x 10 1/2 in. (33 x 26.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Image: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
Image: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, gift of Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, by exchange
On View
Not on viewPeriod21st c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower right corner in pencil: Vanessa Woods '21
Vassar Exhibitions
Label TextVanessa Woods reflects on the visceral experiences—both physical and emotional—of birth and motherhood through collage, sculpture, and photomontage. She makes photographs that include the bodies of her children at play, often abstracted and disembodied. In this collage, her children hold fragments of other photographs, blurring the distinction between photograph and referent. Bodies and pieces of photographs appear in a tangle and occupy indeterminate space. The title of this collage refers to pregnancy and birth as processes of constructing a new body, while at the same time the birthing body is disassembled and remade, as well as to the process of collage. Woods reflects on her own experiences of bodily entanglement with her children, and the physical, emotional, and psychological complexity of that tethering.
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