"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Coddle" (1998)
"Coddle," 1998
Cibachrome print and hand-carved frame, 21 1/2 x 16 inches
Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine
Cibachrome print and hand-carved frame, 21 1/2 x 16 inches
Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine
"In ‘Coddle,’ the structure- the already existing thing that I know and the viewer knows- is this painting of the Madonna and Child. We all know things about that kind of representation of maternal love that’s come to us through art history. Then I can go from this objective place to a very subjective place. To hold my leg and look at it as something other than myself and love it is an interesting experience to give myself. There are a lot of things in that pose that seem charged for me. So here I am, literally holding myself."
- Janine Antoni
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