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Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman are
Chicago photographers who have collaborated on photographic narratives since
1979. Coming of age during the second wave of feminism, they have continued to
explore the subject of women within the cultural mythology of our time.
Women are rarely satisfied with their
appearance. There is intense pressure through media and the beauty industry for
older women to look young (and for young girls to look older). We lack imagery
that addresses women’s historical and creative contributions. Affirmative
images can bring us together and allow the natural process of aging,
individually, in a community and in an historical continuum.
In their series, All Things Are Always
Changing, Ciurej and Lochman challenge perceptions about women and aging. They reconfigured the boundaries of history to
express the time and timelessness they feel. They debate proportion and the
classical ideal with the Greeks and borrow the Romans’ concept of authority,
accomplishment and immortality through their portraiture. Michelangelo’s heroic
intensity challenged them to reconsider the idea of divinity expressed through
the body. Finally, they conjured a
future where we connect to the infinite.
They consider this work their personal
Stonehenge, Acropolis and Sistine Chapel.
Their website: www.ciurejlochmanphoto.com
Posted
Jul 03 2009, 02:53 PM
by
Lara Bersano