Diane Victor
, Focuses on directness
Skilful and highly technical
Exposes the sick inner of the “new SA”
Expressive – smudges become bruises; marks = wounds
Layered lines // Emotonally charged
Forced out of comfort zone
Human figure = subject mater
Motvated by strong negatves responses to the way humans react
Favours large figuratve drawings of human figures
Figures = sitng like lumps of rotng meat & harbouring all these roten
desires inside = covered by her beautful drawing skills
Sexual repression, personal and social violence, racial anxiety
,
, Consumer Violence (1995)
Diane Victor
Meat drawings above victims = objectification
Comparing humans to animals = same (disgust w/ human race)
Superimposed images over charcoal: Snow white = sex slave
(meat = dried up & used); American, western culture = fed through
media; mickey mouse = form of mental slavery, embodiment of
American consumerism
= shows the racially unfair statuses we've been desensitised to
1. Meat = man degraded to being pieces of meat instead of
human // Black male chained up = racially motivated
2. Decaying meat = shows stages of depression // Woman =
stripper = sexual abuse = snow white (7 men) (domestic
abuse/ sex slave/ snow white)
3. Naked corpse getting real shot vs cowboy getting fake shot
Remote = we control what we want to see = desensitised to
violence we are exposed to
, Focuses on directness
Skilful and highly technical
Exposes the sick inner of the “new SA”
Expressive – smudges become bruises; marks = wounds
Layered lines // Emotonally charged
Forced out of comfort zone
Human figure = subject mater
Motvated by strong negatves responses to the way humans react
Favours large figuratve drawings of human figures
Figures = sitng like lumps of rotng meat & harbouring all these roten
desires inside = covered by her beautful drawing skills
Sexual repression, personal and social violence, racial anxiety
,
, Consumer Violence (1995)
Diane Victor
Meat drawings above victims = objectification
Comparing humans to animals = same (disgust w/ human race)
Superimposed images over charcoal: Snow white = sex slave
(meat = dried up & used); American, western culture = fed through
media; mickey mouse = form of mental slavery, embodiment of
American consumerism
= shows the racially unfair statuses we've been desensitised to
1. Meat = man degraded to being pieces of meat instead of
human // Black male chained up = racially motivated
2. Decaying meat = shows stages of depression // Woman =
stripper = sexual abuse = snow white (7 men) (domestic
abuse/ sex slave/ snow white)
3. Naked corpse getting real shot vs cowboy getting fake shot
Remote = we control what we want to see = desensitised to
violence we are exposed to
