Getting started with the collection:
Butterfly
Kinke Kooi, 1997
Kinke Kooi’s motivation is often shame: she shows body parts which, as a woman, she was taught should remain hidden. Here she responds to the dominant visual language and its one-sided representation of femininity, which she calls ‘visual starvation.’ Kooi has drawn fine halos around her armpits. They join with her pose to form the silhouette of a butterfly.
- Artwork typedrawing, photograph
- Object numberRP-T-2017-193
- Dimensionsheight 504 mm x width 740 mm
- Physical characteristicsacrylverf op chromogene druk