Wreath to Pleasure #6
Artist
Helen Chadwick
(British, 1953 - 1996)
Date1993
MediumCibachrome print on aluminum-faced MDF in a glazed powder-coated steel frame
Dimensions110 (diameter) x 5 cm
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Bobbie Foshay, 2021.
Object number2022.10.1
DescriptionCircular image with lime green circular frame. Image is all-over pattern of flowers.eMuseum Notes
“Helen Chadwick is a sensualist who is drawn to things that make us queasy,” said curator Peter Galassi, who organized the 1995 exhibition of Chadwick’s photographs, titled “Bad Blooms,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During her brief but impactful career, Chadwick gravitated toward materials that elicited strong visceral responses and was interested in blurring the boundaries between established binaries such as attraction and repulsion, organic and artificial, or even solid and liquid. She titles this photograph “Wreath to Pleasure,” and its gloss and scale are initially attractive. But the flowers that crowd the acid green frame are unnatural and unappealing in color and for all we know are steeping in putrid flower water.
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