Framed video screen, 2001
Trenda’s work is an interpretation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ "Le Grande Odalisque," featuring a live image of the artist as the subject on a video loop. The work comments on the objectification of the female body in cinema and historical painting. The notion of the stare of the artist is seductive, pulling the viewer closer into the work. It is disrupted by the slight jolt of the end of the video clip, reminding the viewer it is a video and not a still image.
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