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Zustand: Sehr gut. Unpag. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. Text flämisch und englisch. - Lidwien van de Ven's photographs of herself could easily be designated as candid, frank, or truthful. Yet the notion of exposure, or revealing, is an ambivalent one, which echoes the thought of the naked body as the disquieting unveilment of a secret, an unpleasant proximity or ob-scenity of the other. No doubt her work can cause discomfort, no doubt our vision is structured by desire, but Lidwien van de Ven consciously brings these factors into play. We are not the uninvolved observers from the sideline that we might like to be, we are just as much observing as we are observed. The pose taken by Lidwien van de Ven in the photographs, balancing on a pedestal, assuming the position of a quadruped, or stretching her legs backward over her head, is, we are aware, very much an 'act' put on for our benefit. The work is theatrical in a manner that engages us, our gaze often crossing her's. Space is shallow, and her body pushed near to the frontal plane, the backdrops bare and squalid. She is caught in our gaze, not pictured in a luxurious environment in which she can sink away comfortably, but neither can one stealthily enter the picture or skim the surface undisturbed. ISBN 3928696610 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Broschiert.