Smith, Kiki. (b. 1954). "My Secret Business" – Signed Print. Numbered print of the American artist's photograph My Secret Business, signed and dated "Kiki Smith 1993" in pencil to the lower right corner. 99 from a limited edition of 225. Minor bumping to edges; overall fine condition. 22.5 x 30 inches (57.1 x 76.2 cm.).
"During the early 1990s Smith set about radically altering the conventional images and expectations of the female form in Western art. She began to focus almost exclusively on the exposed female body in a number of highly visceral works that range from the beautiful to the grotesque...One of Smith's most important contributions as an artist has been to reclaim the female body from patriarchy and to refigure it as the site of women's lived experience. This is not the fixed, self-contained, or harmonious body of Classical art. It is the uncontrollable body that leaks, stains, defecates, and otherwise exposes its interior." (Helaine Posner, Kiki Smith, 1998 Little Brown & Company, p. 20)
Smith, Kiki. (b. 1954). "My Secret Business" – Signed Print. Numbered print of the American artist's photograph My Secret Business, signed and dated "Kiki Smith 1993" in pencil to the lower right corner. 99 from a limited edition of 225. Minor bumping to edges; overall fine condition. 22.5 x 30 inches (57.1 x 76.2 cm.).
"During the early 1990s Smith set about radically altering the conventional images and expectations of the female form in Western art. She began to focus almost exclusively on the exposed female body in a number of highly visceral works that range from the beautiful to the grotesque...One of Smith's most important contributions as an artist has been to reclaim the female body from patriarchy and to refigure it as the site of women's lived experience. This is not the fixed, self-contained, or harmonious body of Classical art. It is the uncontrollable body that leaks, stains, defecates, and otherwise exposes its interior." (Helaine Posner, Kiki Smith, 1998 Little Brown & Company, p. 20)