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SC0339-TJE-PR-1
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Newnham - Building B - Level 2 - Outside Library - Right of B2030
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Jeannie Thib (1955-2013)
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Untitled (based on her Archives Series, 1995)
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1998
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Print
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Linocut
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43.8 x 27.9 cm
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13/36
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Ours is the age of trivia. We know bits and pieces of this and that while the “big picture” eludes us. We accumulate knowledge like we accumulate possessions, item by item. So to with Jeannie Thib’s art: always the part/fragment, never the whole. Drawing from a panoply of historical (some recent, some ancient) sources, she reworks her material incorporating it into/unto images of body fragments, as she puts it “to form new composites in an exploration of both the ephemerality of the body and our desire to leave a mark.” Many of Thib’s depictions of body parts are overprinted with patterns and designs—the body as social and cultural inscription. The torso in Untitled bears the imprint of what might be flocked Victorian wallpaper or an ornate floral textile design; a collision between body surrogate and nature as culturally filtered. Each image is like a museum artifact, a piece of the puzzle, a single bone of some unknown animal whose final form/meaning we can only guess at. We wear our culture like it was camouflage; we identify with it, we disappear in it, lose ourselves to it. Gary Michael Dault writes, “The exquisite precision of Thib’s work, her fight against informe (shapelessness), is the great humanist act of boundless care, her art an art of saved and saving remnants.” (David Phillips, Seneca Polytechnic)
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Purchased at auction from Waddington's.
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