'A Bigger Splash' at Tate Modern

Helena Almeida
Inhabited Painting
Pintura habitada
1975

3 paintings, acrylic paint on photograph on paper

I was drawn into these paintings with the illusion and the blue paint brushed over the face. It seems like her photographic self has made the marks whereas she has made the gesture over the image after the photograph was taken. 

In each picture she is posed with a paint brush in hand. A mark is brushed in over the photographic image thickly using blue paint. Completing the gesture by making a mark over image that her photographic self performed. In one of the images she has completly covered her face. She looks at the illusionary space of the photographic image and the flatness of the paint.