2020.8.2
Some Things Remain (Shingles Paintings)
Artist
Andrea Dezsö
(Satu-Mare, Romania, 1968 - )
Title
Some Things Remain (Shingles Paintings)
Creation Date
2019
Century
early 21st century
Dimensions
20 1/2 x 17 in. (52.07 x 43.18 cm)
Object Type
watercolor
Creation Place
North America, United States
Medium and Support
watercolor on Awagami Hakuho paper
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Greenacres Acquisition Fund
Copyright
This artwork may be under copyright. For further information, please consult the Museum’s
Copyright Terms and Conditions.
Accession Number
2020.8.2
The uncanny figures in the Shingles Paintings express an intrusion of the unfamiliar during Dezsö’s struggle with the shingles virus. Diverging from her practice of carefully layered compositions, these raw and turbulent watercolors translate the unsettling feeling of being invaded with invisible pain and internal distress into a language of images. The distortion and doubling of recognizable bodily forms, disordered interactions between colors and shapes, and ambiguous space of the stark background all express ways in which the experience of self in the body and the mind is vulnerable to the disruption of unknown and unseen forces. How do we experience ourselves as embodied? What control do we have over our bodies? What separates or connects our bodies from or to the world around them? Can we experience our bodies as something other than ourselves? How can experiences of the body redefine the self?
