Focusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca
Woodman (1958-1981), Claire Raymond takes up the question of the
disintegrative condition of the art she produced in the last year
of her life. Departing from the techniques of her earlier
compositions, Woodman worked in the diazotype process for many of
these late pieces, most importantly the monumental Blueprint for a
Temple. Raymond shows that through her use of diazotype, a medium
that breaks down when exposed to light, Woodman created art that is
both supremely evocative aesthetically and inherently unstable
physically. Woodman, Raymond contends, was imaginatively responding
to the end of the durable image, a historical reality acknowledged
in the way her work plays the ephemeral and evanescent against the
monumental and enduring. Raymond focuses on the theoretical and the
curatorial issues surrounding Woodman's diazotypes, a thematic and
practical distress that haunts much of her later art, especially
the artist's book and photo series Some Disordered Interior
Geometries and Portrait of a Reputation. Rather than conceiving of
Woodman herself as fragile, an artist chronicling and seeming to
yearn for her own disappearance, Raymond juxtaposes Woodman's
career-spanning documentation of her own image against other
post-war witnesses of trauma - an artist standing in the museum
ruins where she emerges most distinctly as a figure of
postmodernity.
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