Full article in Modern Painters magazine (September 2019).
Paris
This question of space — of how something takes up space, deconstructs it or contains it — preoccupied both artists throughout their careers.
In contrast to a long history of erotic representations of female nudes, Pearlstein’s models are not sexualized. Their bodies are not offered up to the viewer’s gaze, but are positioned with a strange sort of nonchalant agency.
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