My artist is Vanessa Beecroft, who is an Italian-born performance artist. Most of her "performances" seem to be usually nude women living in a setting of beecroft's own creation, and placed somewhere where her audience can see but not approach closely.
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| Entitled White Madonna with Twins. Possibly signifies unity of all peoples, no matter of skin color |
Most of her art though is more provocative, containing nude women in large-scaled art scenes. They signify different meanings; from women empowerment to ceasing war and fighting.
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| This is one that has a hard to understand setting. The women are nude or partially nude eating. |
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| Entitled: Still Death! Darfur still Deaf. Shows "bloody reamins" of people. Darfur is a sudan region with guerilla warfare |
She uses her performance pieces for video and photographic art, by taking pictures and videos of the scene she sets, as well as the reaction and feedback of her audiences. She then takes them and makes them into other seperate shows.
It is said by some that she might be using suggestive models (ie: nude women) as a reversed element of feminist power and anti-suppression of gender. Other art pieces, such as the Darfur bloody one, show the political statements against warfare and violence. No matter which piece, it shows she does her own thing and has fun doing it
