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Untitled I (from the series Fallen Frukt)
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2014
Artist: Emma Hartvig
Dimensions:
A: Framed size: 26 x 43 cm
B: Framed size: 29 x 43 cm
Medium: Photograph
Object number: UAC 823
DescriptionEmma studied BA Photography at London College of Communication. She says:
'In the painterly photographic works of the female body juxtaposed with falling fruits and dripping milk, I explore eroticism and suspended desire as Iconography. Whether these bodies are delicate or decadent, resisting or giving in, in a state of orgasm or turning away, they draw upon references in Renaissance and Oriental paintings, with mythic icons such as the Virgin Mary, Eve in the Garden of Eden or the Ottoman woman central to the work. These women are saints and sinners; they are mothers, daughters, sisters and lovers. Like the luscious inside of a fruit, she is soft and tender, ripe and in growth. Symbolism is essential to the work: the fruits (fleshy lusts, forbidden fruit, fertility) and the milk (mother’s milk, giving and receiving) are portraying the paradox in lust, guilt and temptation. The nude body is turned away or hidden; like a painting being cropped and the detail being focused upon.'
'In the painterly photographic works of the female body juxtaposed with falling fruits and dripping milk, I explore eroticism and suspended desire as Iconography. Whether these bodies are delicate or decadent, resisting or giving in, in a state of orgasm or turning away, they draw upon references in Renaissance and Oriental paintings, with mythic icons such as the Virgin Mary, Eve in the Garden of Eden or the Ottoman woman central to the work. These women are saints and sinners; they are mothers, daughters, sisters and lovers. Like the luscious inside of a fruit, she is soft and tender, ripe and in growth. Symbolism is essential to the work: the fruits (fleshy lusts, forbidden fruit, fertility) and the milk (mother’s milk, giving and receiving) are portraying the paradox in lust, guilt and temptation. The nude body is turned away or hidden; like a painting being cropped and the detail being focused upon.'