Joanna Johnson
#Photographe
- Exposition
Joanna Johnson - 30 Dresses: Recent Color Photographs
JoAnna Johnson is a textile expert; she made the 30 Black dresses by hand from bolts of fabric, she made the patterns, cut, sewed and ironed each one. They are reminiscent of late 19th century women's attire, but their blackness somehow neutralizes them, or even transforms them into negative space. She then places the "empty" dresses in a variety of natural settings in Texas, New Mexico and Illinois.
The work is part performance art, part textile culture, part feminist statement, part installation art, and part photography. They are haunting because of the presence reinforced by the absence of the wearers of these dresses. This otherworldly feeling becomes stranger and more keenly understood as the locations and displays change. There is the strength of a sisterhood of the group brought...
Modifier l'image
JoAnna Johnson is a textile expert; she made the 30 Black dresses by hand from bolts of fabric, she made the patterns, cut, sewed and ironed each one. They are reminiscent of late 19th century women's attire, but their blackness somehow neutralizes them, or even transforms them into negative space. She then places the "empty" dresses in a variety of natural settings in Texas, New Mexico and Illinois.
The work is part performance art, part textile culture, part feminist statement, part installation art, and part photography. They are haunting because of the presence reinforced by the absence of the wearers of these dresses. This otherworldly feeling becomes stranger and more keenly understood as the locations and displays change. There is the strength of a sisterhood of the group brought...