Three Room Dwelling (gun), 2004 - Corinne May Botz
About the Work
About Three Room Dwelling (gun)
This photograph by Corinne May Botz, part of the artist's The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death series, depicts a miniature crime scene model by Frances Glessner Lee, a female criminologist active in the 1940s and 1950s. The threat of ...Read More
This photograph by Corinne May Botz, part of the artist's The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death series, depicts a miniature crime scene model by Frances Glessner Lee, a female criminologist active in the 1940s and 1950s. The threat of violence dominates the image. The cheerful linoleum floor—a mainstay of midcentury middle class kitchens—is overshadowed by the looming silhouette of a figure wielding a gun. "The models," Botz explains, "undermine the notion of the home as a safe haven and reveal it to be a far more complex sphere." Read Less
About the Artist
About Corinne May Botz
Corinne May Botz is a photographer known for her disquieting images of domesticity. While undoubtedly spooky in their own right, Botz's photographs of crime ...Read More
Corinne May Botz is a photographer known for her disquieting images of domesticity. While undoubtedly spooky in their own right, Botz's photographs of crime scene miniatures, haunted houses, and the homes of agoraphobic recluses comment on the social marginalization of women. Works from her series The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, look like perverse mashups of Hans Bellmer's dolls and Laurie Simmons's miniatures. In fact, they are photographs of crime scene reconstructions by Frances Glessner Lee, a woman who broke the mold of the 1950s housewife to become a prominent criminalist. By focusing on women and their anxious relationship to domestic spaces, Botz suggests that the home can be a hell as well as a haven. Botz's work has been exhibited around the world, including shows at Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany, Bellwether Gallery in New York, and The Center for Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland.Read Less
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This work comes in a frame measuring 18" x 21".Shipping
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