Leopard Swimsuit
Artist name
Artist year born
1973
Artwork make date
2001
Artwork material
fabric
Artwork dimensions
height: 71cm
width: 86cm
width: 86cm
Artwork type (categories)
Other
Accession method
Donated by María Ezcurra 2004
Accession number
2-2004
Label text
Both Leopard Swimsuit and Blue Swimsuit, to be displayed as two and three-dimensional installations respectively, are part of an ongoing series by Maria Ezcurra, entitled Body of Work.
In Ezcurra's conception, the 'body of work' (the work of art) is at once physical reality, psychic construction, and socially interacting entity. When unpicked and stretched out on the wall, this leopard printed swimming costume becomes almost unrecognisable; the shape of its outline loses its relationship to the contours of the human body. At first glance, it is the skin of a hunted animal, pinned to the wall like a rare butterfly.
Ezcurra sees this series of textile works as a metaphor for the relationship between her inside self and the way she experiences the city as outside of this inner world. In this she considers the donning of clothes as a realm of experience in which one's self and the world conspire. Both evaluate who you are based on what you wear, enacting a quotidian type of performance in which identity and occupation is each day defined, undone and reassembled.
Carlos Molina
In Ezcurra's conception, the 'body of work' (the work of art) is at once physical reality, psychic construction, and socially interacting entity. When unpicked and stretched out on the wall, this leopard printed swimming costume becomes almost unrecognisable; the shape of its outline loses its relationship to the contours of the human body. At first glance, it is the skin of a hunted animal, pinned to the wall like a rare butterfly.
Ezcurra sees this series of textile works as a metaphor for the relationship between her inside self and the way she experiences the city as outside of this inner world. In this she considers the donning of clothes as a realm of experience in which one's self and the world conspire. Both evaluate who you are based on what you wear, enacting a quotidian type of performance in which identity and occupation is each day defined, undone and reassembled.
Carlos Molina
Last updated date
2008