Jamie Isenstein
No photoshop, no AI, only analog "grand illusions." For her Body of Mirrors series, Jamie Isenstein captured dancer Cat DeAngelis Olson within a funhouse mirror arrangement, resulting in a series of haunting photographs.
In our interview with Isenstein, she described the political backdrop during the time of their making: "When I made these works in 2017, we had spent the previous year watching this campaign, thinking we would have the first female president. And we knew the stakes—Trump was going to stack the Supreme Court and overturn Roe v. Wade. So yes, I was thinking about the possibility of losing control over decisions about our own bodies. I wanted to stake a claim for people to be in charge of what happens to our own bodies—to stay subjects and not objects of other people's authority."
Pictured alongside Body of Mirrors (Four Hands, Two Arms) in the Body / Body / Body exhibition.
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C-print mounted on Museum Board
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Edition of 3, 2AP
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Signed on reverse by artist
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Body / Body / Body offers an intimate counterpoint to an age of control: works that reclaim the body as a site of autonomy, performance, pleasure, and lived experience. With an unconventional use of materials, artists Jamie Isenstein, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sophy Naess reflect upon bodies through the lenses of feminism, humor, and imagination.
Meet Jamie Isenstein
Jaime Isenstein’s work spans sculpture, video, performance, painting, and photography, considering perception, subjectivity and the slippery nature of animate and inanimate existence. Her work has been described by art critic Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times, as "cryptic and light, with an undertow of sorrow."
