PATTY CARROLL: Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise and Disaster
@ ARTRUSS
4553 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, August 4th
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 4-part series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing women and their complicated relationships with domesticity. The artist writes the following on the works in this series.
My work is about entangling women and home, leading to the phrase “housewife.” All of the photographs are reimagined interior spaces of rooms filled with décor and objects, featuring a lone figure of a woman, engulfed in her interior. She is both a victim of her possessions and obsessions, as well as the invisible creator of such; both satisfying and problematic, pathetic and humorous. Her home has become a site of tragedy and danger, with scenes of hilarious and heartbreaking mishaps. I use a female mannequin to stand in for the “perfect” woman, as she never has issues of aging, weight gain, acne or other normal human complexities.
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