Posts tagged ‘femme’
High Femme
High Femme
© Circé
oil on canvas
30in. x 48in.
$3,500. CAD
Originally conceived and created as part of a larger Queer Lives series, Ms. Circe offers a sensual and stunning take on not only the visibility of queer women, but also a non-conformist portrayal of an unapologetic sexual woman. Juxtaposed within the classical portraiture milieu we are dramatically given a moment of relaxed, confident sexuality. Beautifully captured and portrayed Ms. Circe choses to show a confidence that confronts the viewer and asks that we linger in this captured moment, where queerness and marginalized identity has never been presented in such an archetypal and simply stunning way. Ms. Circe continues to examine important questions about feminism and female representation in her art, unafraid of the sexual politics that have often been a centric controversial element in deconstructing feminist art practice. Ms. Circe offers an intriguing and powerful image of female sexuality in her continued exploration of what has historically been the site of women’s oppression.
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My thoughts as a queer femme-artist
I reject the label of fine artist, I am a queer femme-artist. I reject the label of fine artist because it is steeped in a patriarchal slant that always considered women as lesser, not as talented or deserving. Emotions in Women’s art is not a simple bi-product of nature and emotion in men’s art is not a new creation that transcends the dictates of nature.
My voice as a queer femme-artist of transsexual origin is what distinguishes me from other artists. Asides from women, I also explore queer lives and people.
Beauty and the sublime in my eyes, holds little in common with any masculine or heterosexist views. I am not a disinterested observer, an eye without compassion, I am completely interested in all things women and feminine, I am filled with a burning desire to share and to understand. For me, to fully appreciate the Art of women’s lives, I need to be closely entangled in what my sisters see and feel, I need to smell, taste, touch and understand, I cannot obtain what I need in my Art from a distance.
My Art is always political, it has to be by the very nature that it’s personal. I subvert traditional art, fine-art, established aesthetics through the questioning of society’s treatment and attitude towards women. I use the techniques once taught nearly exclusively to men to promote the power and strength of women.
I embrace the erotic in my paintings and drawings. My art is post-feminist in nature and understanding. I attempt to disrupt, to bring questioning to the viewer, to push for a dialogue and to denounce violence and all forms of oppressions towards women.
For me, it’s often about freeing myself of the chains of a patriarchally imposed subordination of women in the arts by misogynistic edicts on beauty and acceptable topics. I transgress the rules of political correctness. I explore, through my Art, the female body, female sexuality and female thought. I insist on using a female discourse which freely speaks to the feminine, not as a weakness or lesser quality but as the powerful life energy it truly is.
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