ArtandCulture Artist: Luce Irigaray
"I search for myself, as if I had been assimilated into maleness. I ought to reconstitute myself on the basis of a dissimilation...Rise again from the traces of a culture, of works already produced by the other. Searching through what is in them - for what is not there. What allowed them to be, for what is not there. Their conditions of possibility, for what is not there.
Woman ought to be able to find herself, among other things, through the images of herself already deposited in history and the conditions of production of the work of man, and not on the basis of his work, his genealogy." (Irigaray 1984: 17; 1993c:9-10)
I am reading Reading Art, Reading Irigaray the politics of art by women, and I wanted to find out a wee bit more about Luce Irigaray...This project has taken me down a well trodden road...but I'm not too sure where I'm going with it. Or maybe I mean, how comfortable I am with it.
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