Vestiges
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Creativity in the Time of COVID-19
- Copyright Status
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- Date Created
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2019/2022
- Artists
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Bernal, Daniela Hernández
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in art
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Drawings (visual works)
- Language
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No linguistic content
- Extent
- 6 sketches
- Genre Note
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Pencil and charcoal on paper
- Exhibit Label
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Portraits are vestiges of life as it is desired, dreamed of, and ultimately lost. What appears in these portraits is an inanimate body; a body in tension, irrational, uncomfortable, and even strange. It is a body without time, without history, and without narrative. These portraits allow the viewer to be confronted with an introspective gaze that reduces them to traces of themselves. Having to live in isolation to take care of my health and physical wellness carried with it a challenge not just to my life, but to the people I love and share joy with everyday. In this way, the loneliness and uncertainty of this time acquired importance in the bodies of familiar people; faces seemed to disappear due to this scenario in which we are treated as masses, where the singularity of the subject disappears within familiar spaces like homes and workplaces that gradually become suffocating and unrecognizable. --Label design by exhibit curator Nancy DeJoy. Labels written by Ben Lash and his team in consultation with artist statements.
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1 of 6: Vestiges. Part 01
A black and white drawing of a person with long, wavy hair standing bent over with their arms hanging limp over their head and knees slightly bent. The person is wearing a bra and underwear and we cannot see their face. The sides of the image are shaded in a vignette so the lightest part is around the person.
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- 1 sketch
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2 of 6: Vestiges. Part 02
A black and white drawing of a person with fabric wrapped around their head, laying with their legs in the air and arms pressed against the floor. The person is wearing only boxer shorts. The image is turned upside-down so the person appears as though they are falling. The sides of the image are shaded in a vignette so the lightest part is around the person.
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3 of 6: Vestiges. Part 03
A black and white drawing of a person with fabric wrapped around their head, sitting on the front of a chair with their feet at the back of the chair. The person is hunched over their feet with their arms hanging limp by their feet, and they are wearing only boxer shorts. The sides of the image are shaded in a vignette so the lightest part is around the person.
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- 1 sketch
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4 of 6: Vestiges. Part 04
A black and white drawing of a person sitting on a hexagonal pedestal with fabric wrapped around their head. The person is sitting slightly hunched over with their feet pressed together, knees outward and their hands lay crossed over their feet with un-bent elbows. The person is wearing only boxer shorts. The sides of the image are shaded in a vignette so the lightest part is around the person.
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- 1 sketch
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5 of 6: Vestiges. Part 05
A black and white drawing of a person with long, wavy hair collapsed over a chair with their arms hanging limp by their head on the floor and knees flailing upward, bent. The front of their legs are pressed into the seat of the chair and their head on the ground to the left of its legs. The person has large but short, cylindrical tubes around the tops of their thighs. The person is wearing a bra and underwear and we cannot see their face. The sides of the image are shaded in a vignette so the lightest part is around the person. A shadow is casted onto the white wall behind them.
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- 1 sketch
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6 of 6: Vestiges. Part 06
A black and white drawing of a person with long, wavy hair laying with their elbows bent and hands by their head and knees bent so their legs lay under them. The person is wearing a bra and underwear and we cannot see their face as it is covered with their wavy hair. The image is turned sideways so the person appears as though they are falling. The sides of the image are shaded in a vignette so the lightest part is around the person.
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- 1 sketch
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