This ethereal and unusual collection of 200
photographs shot around in the world, in both black and white and color,
presents the artist’s ongoing project that is an experiment in privacy and
freedom. Using the world’s public spaces
as backdrop, the artist has removed all clothes and placed herself into
landscapes and cityscapes to question the issue of what is private and what is
public. The result is shocking not
because the subject is nude, but because of the seamless way in which her body
fits into these environments without interruption, almost eliminating the
divide between public and private. The
fact that these photographs even exist is something of a miracle. The work is
filled with contradictions and unexpected experiences for the reader. Never before published in book form, and seen
only rarely in exhibition spaces, these very distinctive and beautiful
photographs, when seen together, offer the question of what is private and what
is public, and how those distinctions impact personal and group freedoms. Emotionally evocative and artistically
elegant, this totally original work beckons all investigators of humanity’s
place in the universe.
