Sarah Charlesworth: Desire and Seduction
Paula Cooper Gallery•Feb 20, 2025 — Mar 29, 2025
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Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) is known for her conceptually driven and visually alluring photo-based works that subvert and deconstruct cultural imagery. Entitled Desire and Seduction, the current exhibition will examine how these themes emerged and recurred within Charlesworth’s work from the early 1980s through the mid-2000s. Populated with fetish objects and silken fabrics, isolated body parts and masked strangers, the exhibition invites the viewer to locate their own desire.
Beginning with her celebrated Objects of Desire series (1983–88), Charlesworth sought to make visible the “shape of desire.” Meticulously excising images from a range of sources—including fashion magazines, pornography, and archeological textbooks—she then re-photographed the cutouts against fields of pure color. In each work, Charlesworth has paired the image with a signifying color: red (sexual passion), black (dominance or death), green (natural growth), yellow (material value), blue (spiritual or…
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Sarah Charlesworth: Desire and Seduction
Paula Cooper Gallery•Feb 20, 2025 — Mar 29, 2025
Press Release
Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) is known for her conceptually driven and visually alluring photo-based works that subvert and deconstruct cultural imagery. Entitled Desire and Seduction, the current exhibition will examine how these themes emerged and recurred within Charlesworth’s work from the early 1980s through the mid-2000s. Populated with fetish objects and silken fabrics, isolated body parts and masked strangers, the exhibition invites the viewer to locate their own desire.
Beginning with her celebrated Objects of Desire series (1983–88), Charlesworth sought to make visible the “shape of desire.” Meticulously excising images from a range of sources—including fashion magazines, pornography, and archeological textbooks—she then re-photographed the cutouts against fields of pure color. In each work, Charlesworth has paired the image with a signifying color: red (sexual passion), black (dominance or death), green (natural growth), yellow (material value), blue (spiritual or…
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