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PATRICIA VOULGARIS combines modernist cut-paper abstraction with fragments of the human body,
fashioning a fragmented peek-a-boo that also suggests objectification and an urgent sense of the
psychologically dislocated.
In this new work, Patricia Voulgaris continues her probe of the body, but with raw urgency and aggression, revoking the cheerful, reassuring color of her previous work. The photographs feel conversely improvisational and ritualistic, their secretiveness not of shame but of menace.
Andre Breton has suggested that "Beauty will be convulsive or not at all…convulsive beauty will be be veiled-erotic, fixed-explosive, magic-circumstantial”. Voulgaris posits the photograph as ceremony, abandoning explicit purpose for catharsis, sharing this delirious beauty with the viewer.
Patricia Voulgaris
Untitled, 2016
Archival pigment
Edition of 5
Patricia Voulgaris
Conch, 2016
Archival pigment
Edition of 5
Patricia Voulgaris
Untitled, 2016
Archival pigment
Edition of 5
Patricia Voulgaris
Untitled, 2016
Archival pigment
Edition of 5