Helen Chadwick is the subject of an ARTIST ROOMS display at Tate Modern, with works from their permanent collection.
Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) was born in Croydon and spent most of her career working from her home and studio in Hackney, London. Her work experiments with light, sculpture, photography and installation. It explores ideas of the self, gender, eroticism and consciousness which Chadwick drew from philosophy, science and art history.
The relationship between viewer, subject and artist is never straightforward for Chadwick. In the early to mid 1980s the artist’s own naked body featured frequently in her work. These pieces express her memory or desires as bodily sensations rather than abstract thoughts. However, the artist’s face is hidden or averted, anonymising her body. The viewer is invited to imagine themselves as the subject, rather than to be an external voyeur.
(Excerpt from the press release)
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On view between 30 September 2024 - 8 June 2025.
