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Jenny Saville
Propped 1992, Oil on Canvas
This painting reveals a grotesquely magnified Saville, perched in equilibrium on top of a narrow stool. A feeling of tension inhabits this excessively full figure as she clutches her voluminous thighs - enlarged through perspective - and pulls her head backwards, though still glancing slightly at the viewer. Across the painted surface, Saville has carved directly into the material a quote by the feminist writer Luce Irigary, which reveals her concerns; ''If we continue to speak in this sameness, speak as men have spoken for centuries, we will fail each other again''. Irigray's message clearly stresses a need to re-appropriate the female body, which has been conquered over time by the language of patriarchy.
This painting reveals a grotesquely magnified Saville, perched in equilibrium on top of a narrow stool. A feeling of tension inhabits this excessively full figure as she clutches her voluminous thighs - enlarged through perspective - and pulls her head backwards, though still glancing slightly at the viewer. Across the painted surface, Saville has carved directly into the material a quote by the feminist writer Luce Irigary, which reveals her concerns; ''If we continue to speak in this sameness, speak as men have spoken for centuries, we will fail each other again''. Irigray's message clearly stresses a need to re-appropriate the female body, which has been conquered over time by the language of patriarchy.