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Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages
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Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages

Last updated: April 23, 2025 1:00 am
Editorial Board Published April 23, 2025
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LONDON — For half a century, artist Linder has taken a scalpel to the popular culture photographs that outline Euro-American tradition. Working primarily with photomontage, her surgical dissections and monstrous re-assemblages provide perception into the insidious intersections of gender, need, and commercialism on the coronary heart of patriarchal capitalism’s imagery. Linder: Hazard Got here Smiling presents a punchy and thorough overview of Linder’s oeuvre, navigating the methods during which the artist has shifted mercurially between classes, from the effective artwork scene to documentary images to the wild underworld of punk music and past. 

A few of Linder’s earliest photomontages stay her strongest. As an illustration, a set of untitled works from the mid-Seventies combines photographs from up to date promoting with pornographic photographs of ladies to create darkly comedic parodies of home life. In a single piece, a girl’s bare torso emerges from a frying pan resting on a modern kitchen worktop. She has a blender for a head, with eyes and lips minimize from vogue photoshoots. In one other, a girl in lingerie seems to pose for a large digicam in her bed room, however she has a vacuum cleaner for a face. 

Set up views of works from Linder’s collection Fairly Women (1977)

Equally, within the 1977 collection Fairly Women, a nude feminine mannequin poses in basic “pin-up” poses round a home area, her face masked by spliced pictures of things akin to espresso pots, report gamers, and irons. By digging into the visible language of each pornography and promoting geared toward girls, these photographs successfully subvert deep-seated societal assumptions concerning the roles and desires of ladies. Right here, home area is remodeled from an idealized and commercialized haven right into a dystopian web site of dysmorphia, management, and surveillance, during which the boundaries between girl and object are blurred. 

In a lot of her more moderen works, Linder eschews home objects for luscious photographs of flowers, usually utilizing them to obscure pornographic scenes, very like the fig leaves of classical sculpture. In these items, Linder attracts consideration to the complicated symbolism of flowers, which mark key life occasions, from delivery to marriage to dying; present romantic intentions; characterize femininity; and act as memento mori within the nonetheless life custom. In Linder’s surgical interventions, girls and vegetation turn into hybrids, caught in a state of metamorphosis that speaks to the fluidity of gender, and positions each our bodies and blooms as websites of resistance in opposition to the binaries of patriarchy.

Linder’s world is certainly one of punk disregard for the principles, full of subversion and brash magnificence. She repeatedly exaggerates the aesthetics of need till they attain absurdity or grotesqueness, demonstrating how our expectations and yearnings are consistently manipulated by patriarchy and capitalist consumerism to unrealistic or unsustainable ends. On this context, slicing turns into a transformational act that dissects time and area, making a language of simultaneous isolation and mixture that is still as incisive immediately because it was half a century in the past. 

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Set up view of Linder: Hazard Got here Smiling

Linder: Hazard Got here Smiling continues at Hayward Gallery (Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London) by way of Could 5. The exhibition was curated by Rachel Thomas with Gilly Fox, Katie Guggenheim, and Charlotte Dos Santos.

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