テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「#WorkoftheWeek is 'Casually Cruel' by American artist Christina Quarles—an abstract, acrylic painting that draws attention to its own materials and process. 🖌️ Quarles began the work by laying down organic strokes and drips; she then began to see these marks as figures, and created a composition of fluid bodies. Some way through this process, Quarles photographed the composition and examined the image on a computer; she then sketched on top of the digital image with Adobe Illustrator. The digital drawing then became the basis for adding to the composition. The three figures in the work appear as much as collections of abstract strokes and drips of paint as clear representations of bodies. Quarles is interested in linking the construction of a painting to her understanding of the construction of identity as a queer woman of mixed African American and white parentage. She says, ‘my relationship to being half black is something I explore in these works, but rather than making paintings of what a racially multiple body looks like, I hope to make paintings that explore what living in a racially multiple body feels like. For me, it is the feeling of having my identity in constant flux, feeling my sense of self solidify and get rebuilt depending on context.’ This work in particular was created in response to the incarceration and separation of migrant families at the United States border, with the two figures on the right reaching for each other across a hedge wall. ‘I was thinking of how seemingly casual and careless the government was about something that had such significant psychological implications.’ Christina Quarles, Casually Cruel, 2018」6月29日 22時33分