ANNE COLLIER
2019-10-07Collier’s exhibition focuses on her ongoing series ‘Woman Crying (Comic)’ and ‘Tear (Comic)’: each based on imagery sourced from American romance comic books published between the 1950s and the 1980s. Exclusively marketed to an adolescent female readership, the comic books’ clichéd narratives paradoxically served to reinforce the notion of a subservient and eternally suffering female subject. Self-consciously acknowledging the early work of Roy Lichtenstein and the subsequent revisions of Lichtenstein’s iconography by both Richard Hamilton and Sturtevant as departure points, Collier’s ‘Woman Crying (Comic)’ and ‘Tear (Comic)’ consist of greatly enlarged and isolated images of women’s tear-filled eyes and graphic depictions of individual tears.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2019
Galerie Neu
Linienstraße 119 abc
10115 Berlin
Germany
