Breast Forms Permutated, 1972 - 2008

Basel 2019
Breast Forms Permutated

michèle didier

Prints & Multiples
Photograph and text
45.0 x 36.5 x 3.0 (厘米)
17.7 x 14.4 x 1.2 (吋)
Martha Wilson "Breast Forms Permutated" Black and white photographs, text 45 x 36.5 x 3 cm Artist's proof 2/3 from an edition of 4 + 3 artist's proofs 1972/2008 In Breast Forms Permutated, Martha Wilson applies set theory, a branch of mathematical based on the principle of permutation, used by conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s, to the most fetishized aspect of female anatomy: breasts. She permutes the breast form, deriving nine iterations from a single variable. Mocking the tendency to police the female body and to establish universal standards of female beauty, Wilson places the «perfect set» in the center of her grid.