Artwork Title: House 4, Providence, Rhode Island - Artist Name: Francesca WoodmanArtwork Title: House 4, Providence, Rhode Island - Artist Name: Francesca Woodman

House 4, Providence, Rhode Island, 1978

Francesca Woodman

Artwork Title: House 4, Providence, Rhode Island - Artist Name: Francesca WoodmanArtwork Title: House 4, Providence, Rhode Island - Artist Name: Francesca Woodman
From a series called Ghost Pictures. Woodman was only 22 years old when she killed herself in 1981 by leaping out of a window. Perhaps in part because of her untimely end, her work is imbued with a sinister chill, as if each image was in some way predicting the darkness to come. The brilliant young artist constantly photographed herself in domestic spaces, often trapped, smudged or fading away like a ghost. The hauntingly beautiful images address not only death itself, but the sort of death involved in the domestic existence many women were forced to experience. [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/19/death-in-art-_n_6849376.html]

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