The Image Fringe Essay

The image Fringe by Rebecca Belmore and Sammy Baloji’s, Untitled from the Memoire Series are both similar and different. To begin with, Fringe is an image in which an aboriginal woman is shown with her back to the audience, with a deep red slash running from her right shoulder to her left hip. The figure in Fringe also expresses to the viewer that the woman has not been destroyed but she is indeed wounded, but she is healing. The image is a visual record of how deep is the cut of the patriarchal mind-set. Belmore is critiquing the history of Orientalism here in a very simple way. The representation of the female nude has been historically linked to the hyper sexualizing of women and male eye candy, meaning that women exist to satisfy patriarchal …show more content…
It is also described as the way the global order was organized and legitimates the way the world is ordered and the way we perceive the world.
2. How does Samuel Fosso’s The One who Sold Africa to the Colonizers, 1997, critique the history of photography on the African continent? Samuel Fosso uses forms of photographic representation to generate images that challenge the viewer to reconsider and review how the self that of the artists and of there own is reconstituted. The props in this image have both obvious and also ambiguous meanings. The extravagant looking traditional dress and accessories, the bouquet of sunflowers, the orange dress shoes and the exotic pair of sunglasses, which have the power to interrupt the flow of the scene. The image also portrays a denial of historical specificity and how photography freezes people in time.
3. Why does Jean Fisher consider James Luna’s performance work, Artifact Piece, to be “in search of the “inauthentic?” Explain what “inauthenticity” means in this