\\BACK GALLERY\\ Slater Bradley: Nudes

22 Nov 2012-12 Jan 2013

Overview

The exhibition will feature a series of small black and white nude photographs of young women, intervened on by the artist with silver and gold marker. These images delve into the concepts of desire, identity and contemporary icons explored in Bradley’s practice. The women portrayed here are de-contextualized, their light flesh emerging from the metallic backdrop, abstracted from reality – they are made into icons. These women are at once ethereal entities and classical muses, becoming objects of desire and adoration. The nude models are lost in a time of perpetual innocence, whilst their viewer’s gaze cannot penetrate the immediate beauty of their bodies floating into the metallic space. They are as unattainable as the icons they evoke.