Silent Companions
White Square Gallery
Ione Rucquoi: Horn boy
2010 © Ione Rucquoi
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The photos of Ione Rucquoi (born 1975 in Oxford) examine the historic role of women, while at the same time playing with old-fashioned conceptions and resentments. Starting from the traditional idea of female portrait painting as mere decoration, Rucquoi shows her protagonists as objects of desire. Her work is deeply involved with their everyday life, revealing biographical detail growing up, erotic experience, pregnancy and giving birth. But the ordinary is not the chief object of thematic interest for Rucquoi she is more interested in the uncanny, which she intuits in every real life situation while trying to transcend its boundaries. She plays in a virtuoso way with the stereotypes and taboos of female psychology, translating them into symbols which are an integral component of the strict idiom of her classically constructed works. Painterly, tense and bizarre, these photos evoke associations and so present an exceptional challenge to the imaginative response and creativity of the viewer.
Theme
New pictorial worlds, new techniques
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Artist(s)
Ione Rucquoi
Duration of the exhibition
16.10. - 27.11.2010
Vernissage
15.10.2010, 18 h
Finissage
26.11.2010, 17 h
Opening times
Di-Sa 12-18 h
Location
White Square Gallery
Mauerstraße 83/84
10117 Berlin
T 0049 30 20889599
Public transport connections
U2, 6 Stadtmitte
U6 Kochstraße
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