Tracey Moffatt: Laudanum

by Tracey Moffatt, Stefan Berg (Editor), Brigitte Reinhardt (Editor)

Since her exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 1997/98, Australian artist Tracey Moffatt has been one of the most-watched international artists. Of Aboriginal descent, Moffatt combines the artificial aspects of theater and film with a kinetic documentary approach to achieve highly emotional films and photographic series located on the border between reality and the surreal. Drawing on well-known pictorial styles from film, photography and art history and adopting elements of advertising and trash-TV, Moffatt explores existential themes -- sexuality and power, birth and death, desires, dreams and memories -- as well as Aboriginal related themes concerning the unknown, the outcast, and the marginal. Her visual scenarios are imbued with atmospheric strangeness and contradictory emotions. This book offers a representative selection of her work, including the until now unpublished 1998 series "laudanum".

Hardcover

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Tracey Moffatt (born 12 November 1960) is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.

Born in Brisbane in 1960, she holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982.

Her works are held in the collections of the Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, National Gallery of Australia, and Art Gallery of New South Wales

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey_M...)

Reviews

[Lana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing.