Artists'
Statement
Middle age fills us with questions about past and future.
Must we choose between extending our youth or a dismal backwater?
In response, we created a rearrangement and expansion of
historical boundaries to express the time and timelessness
we feel in our bones.
In a series we began in 2002, we photographed ourselves
and other women. We became acutely aware of irreversible
changes to our bodies wrought by time. The women we were
photographing had a form and beauty not reflected in our
culture’s youth-oriented and highly sexualized portrayals.
We embarked on finding metaphors that would capture the power
of the body while subverting some of the visible ideologies
that hold us captive to these images.
We looked to the Greeks for their fusion of harmony and balance
as expressed in the body, a notion that defined the ideals
of Western beauty for centuries. We confronted their views
of proportion and beauty and extended them. We evoked the
Romans in a series of portraits of older women and questioned
the language of authority and immortality.
This led us to the most recent work: Dialogues
with Michelangelo. Michelnagelo’s hulking figures
express their divinity through corporeality, yet when paired
with our interpretations, raise many questions. What authority,
power and wisdom can be conjured by appropriating these same
gestures and poses? What is it to stand wholly naked and
utterly human in front of the icons of history and challenge
their stories? What holds these stories together? The images
question the boundaries of the iconic and the individual
in and acrorss time.
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Explicit written permission must always be obtained before
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Commissions:
We are available for commission work upon request.
All
images from the series “All Things are Always Changing” © Ciurej
and Lochman 2005-2007
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