Portraits of Women
Inari Porkka
29.6 - 6.7.2018
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Visiting hours:
29.6 - 6.7.2018 @ 12:00 -18:00
FB EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/181714432531760/
Portraits of Women is a series of drawings done with colour pencils on paper, where several renaissance profile portraits have been remixed by replacing the original models with currently living transgender women. It is a response to the conversation about "historical accuracy" that plagues cultural criticism. When discussing cultural products created today, the term "historical accuracy" is a racist code word used to justify an extremely narrow and bigoted view of history, and has nothing to do with what we actually know of history and the people who lived hundreds of years ago. The portrait series asserts that transgender people are not anachronistic or ahistorical; that transgender people have always existed.
Portraits of Women is part of the Helsinki Pride Week.
Inari Porkka is a Finnish non-binary drawing artist using both digital and traditional techniques. In their work they combine different objects of their interest (art history, Hamlet, social justice, Pokemon...) according to the principles of remix culture – often with surprising results. Inari lives and works in Hamina, Finland.
http://inariporkka.tumblr.com/
Portraits of Women is a series of drawings done with colour pencils on paper, where several renaissance profile portraits have been remixed by replacing the original models with currently living transgender women. It is a response to the conversation about "historical accuracy" that plagues cultural criticism. When discussing cultural products created today, the term "historical accuracy" is a racist code word used to justify an extremely narrow and bigoted view of history, and has nothing to do with what we actually know of history and the people who lived hundreds of years ago. The portrait series asserts that transgender people are not anachronistic or ahistorical; that transgender people have always existed.
Portraits of Women is part of the Helsinki Pride Week.
Inari Porkka is a Finnish non-binary drawing artist using both digital and traditional techniques. In their work they combine different objects of their interest (art history, Hamlet, social justice, Pokemon...) according to the principles of remix culture – often with surprising results. Inari lives and works in Hamina, Finland.
http://inariporkka.tumblr.com/