"Repulsively feminine”
Agata Cardoso’s work explores the many complexities of the female body and identity. She uses photography as her primary medium, choosing to use traditional black and white silver-based techniques of developing as opposed to digital. This is because digital photography can appear too polished and instant. Because of her subject matter her aim is to move away from the perfect print and the airbrushed quality that is mostly associated with the presentation of the body in glossy magazines. Instead she creates grainy and textured images that are rawer and carry more truth than an airbrushed over-produced digital image. The artist’s concern lies in how women and the female body are represented today in popular culture and the media and ultimately its ability to distort and confuse the consumers perception on what a body should look like. She is fascinated by the body’s unique form and its ability to change, whether through surgery or naturally with age. The artist‘s aim is to show the female body from a different perspective using ambiguity to explore boundaries imposed on us by the culture that surrounds us.
Although the medium of Photography plays a key role in Cardoso’s work, she has recently started to produce a new body of work which consists mainly of sculpture, mixed-media, moving image and traditional crafts.
Agata Cardoso and the Artist Trevor Taylor have recently come together to collaborate on three new film pieces entitled “Eternally in the presence”, “I came I saw I crawled”, and “Pulling wool”. These pieces of work can be viewed on the following sites:
www.agatacardoso.blogspot.com www.trevtazzietaylor.blogspot.com