Object number2025.13.2
The Line She Traced 6
Date2023
Artist
Luciana Pinchiero
(Argentine, born 1983)
CultureArgentine, American
MediumCollage on paper
DimensionsImage: 9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm)
Matted: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Framed: 14 1/2 x 11 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (36.8 x 28.9 x 3.2 cm)
Matted: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
Framed: 14 1/2 x 11 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (36.8 x 28.9 x 3.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Advisory Council for Photography
On View
Not on viewPeriod21st c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn frame verso, stamped lower right [within square outline] in blue ink: Aa.
Vassar Exhibitions
Label TextLuciana Pinchiero works in collage, sculpture, and installation to critique society’s highly gendered concepts of beauty, value, and authority. For Pinchiero, the process of cutting and recombining found images is a way to repair and rebuild broken and incomplete histories. Her collages explore female agency, subjectivity, and personhood, incorporating fragments of photographs of a life drawing model reproduced in The Human Figure: A Photographic Reference for Artists (1974). These figures overlap and intertwine with blue silhouettes, which together suggest an entwined pair of figures. Their compositions reconfigure objectifying images as imagined illustrations of queer romance. For Pinchiero, the medium of collage has a specifically queer connotation; fragments are recombined to construct a speculative vision of the future and past, one in which the female body is a symbol of autonomy and the history of queer women is celebrated rather than suppressed or denied. These works offer themselves as small monuments to unwritten queer histories and futures alike.
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