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Lot Essay
Janine Antoni who was raised in the Bahamas, her father being a plastic surgeon, holds a fascination for parody and transformation, creation and procreation. In her hands, everything, from chocolate, lard or leather, to her own body or the image of her parents, is a raw material ready to go through alchemist process, alteration and renovation.
In her photograph triptych 'Mom and Dad', Antoni maliciously describes her medium as being her 'father, mother' and some 'make-up'. In this surprising masquerade, Mom and Dad have been made-up to look exactly like the other and to render a subtle metaphor on gender and sexual distinctiveness.
If Janine Antoni's approach is very much peculiar, it is still infinitely intimate as she moves back to childhood when she perceived her parents as exchangeable characters.
In her photograph triptych 'Mom and Dad', Antoni maliciously describes her medium as being her 'father, mother' and some 'make-up'. In this surprising masquerade, Mom and Dad have been made-up to look exactly like the other and to render a subtle metaphor on gender and sexual distinctiveness.
If Janine Antoni's approach is very much peculiar, it is still infinitely intimate as she moves back to childhood when she perceived her parents as exchangeable characters.