Thursday, 27 January 2011

Research- Margi Geerlinks

Margi Geerlinks is a Dutch artist and photographer who has used the body to experiment and explore how people identify themselves. In her work, the body takes centre stage and becomes as much the medium as the camera that captures the images.

Sometimes the images can even be slightly disturbing but they do hit on some more of the serious issues involved in how people view themselves and what they do, or not, to edit their identity and present something different.

Personally, although she is usually people and I am not, I stillfind it very interesting because of her approach and the points regarding identity that she is trying to portray. It hits home particularly when you consider the media pressure on the younger generation, which is what i interpret the boy with the sewing machine image to represent.





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