Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation

Explore themes of death, sex, flesh and the female gaze in Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. With more than 100 photographs on display, A Beautiful Hesitation is a comprehensive presentation of 30 years of Fiona Pardington's practice. Revealing the key elements that have helped to shape her work, the exhibition celebrates one of New Zealand's most notable photographers.

Pardington's majestic still-life works transform the traditional genre into something wondrously other. Her investigation of museum collections breathes new life into heitiki, natural-history specimens, life casts made on European voyages of discovery, death casts of French criminals and assassins, and much more. Pardington empowers and transform the found object through her photography. Her series One Night of Love re-presents photographs of female nudes destined for men's magazines, while The Medical Suite re-presents photographs of disease from medical textbooks. In all her work, the personal and political – and ways of looking and being – are thoughtfully intertwined.

http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/exhibition/fiona-pardington-a-beautiful-hesitation

I have found Fiona work very inspiring, I like the look of her work the way her photos are vibrant and looks like paintings that is a look I want my photos to have

Miklós Kiss

Hungarian graphic designer and visual artist Miklós Kiss created this powerful series of artworks to raise awareness for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th.

“Many women are discriminated and abused because of their gender. The violent acts committed against them can be verbal, emotion, physical, sexual or economic and they are much more common than expected — and it happens more often than we know about it.
Many of the abuse cases are never reported to the authorities, and the media isn’t informed, remaining unnoticed. Many women feel like they do not have any other option but to silently endure. The silent yes is like an exclamation mark. A mark for all those women who have been deprived of their rights of making their own choices. For those who have been living their lives under obligation and suppression because nobody has ever shown them how to say no. This silent consent becomes a painful everyday routine and it’s hiding on their lips, dishonest and invisible.”

More typography inspiration via Miklós Kiss

Art Photography Typography Posted on December 9, 2015