Tim Hawkinsons work he uses the idea of the body rather than putting the actual body in his works. as he says that when his work is finished it no longer looks like the body more like an abstracted version of it and you no longer feel able to identify with it. "It's not about my identity its about our identity, our experiences within our body, and our bodies relationship to the external world." Hawkinson uses sound in his a couple of his works, but the sound often uses a rythym that you can dance to, this is more seen in his Drop installation. He does not very often do preliminary drawings of his work because he says he never can get the full picture until he is actually working on his work and watching it transform.
I actually really like Yinka Shonibares works. He uses a wide range of mediums in his gallery from painting, costume, photography and film. He uses the body a lot in his works obviously in the films there are the actors so the body is physically in the work. Though he does express the issue of race and class in his work as seen in many of his cotumes works, the one thing they all have in common is that they are faceless, so no one can identify with race. Odelia and Odette one of his films I find very beautiful and interesting, the costumes were very colorful and the idea was that they are one, but differnet. Odette being the white swan Odelia is the black swan.
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