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Frame None
Medium Oil on canvas
Height 120.00 cm
Width 150.00 cm
Artist Sarah Ballam
Year 2022

For Ballam, the figure, especially the female figure, is a site of contestation, conflict and even violence throughout history. In refashioning figures and scenes from classical antiquity and art history, Ballam brings a very contemporary filter and a new view of classical tropes. Her palimpsestuous figures drawn from art historical scenes of rape and unambiguous violence inflicted on women are reimagined, with limbs, especially hands, erased and re-emerging to powerful effect. But here too are figures of redemption and triumph, realised with the same spectral skill in her brushwork and composition.

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