Lynn Bianchi
American, born 1944
The "Spaghetti Eaters" series is about the female experience in everyday life. Some of the work illustrates how a woman feels about her body: never satisfied with the weight and shape, but still having to exist in her own skin. One of the most passionate and contradictory relationships we have is with food. Nourishment, comfort and pleasure are basic needs—but food can also trigger guilt and self-loathing. The photographs present a variety of scenarios. Women eat pasta, drink tea and gorge on chocolates, cake, wine, grapes and ice cream. A recurring image is the prominence of the heaviest woman. The lighter, more “acceptably-bodied” women surround her, at times serving or emulating her, subverting a deep-set notion of beauty and femininity. My work continues to expore the relations of food, body image and our concepts of beauty. The Globe series addresses symbolically our relation to the world from the beginning of time into the future. The luminous globe is life's symbiotic connection to the universe, passed down and entrusted from every generation before. We are now the keepers of that light, and it will sustain us in turn. These works are large-scale illuminated Kodaliths. Aesthetic and technical innovations make the work appear to glow from within.
I have shown work internationally in over 30 solo exhibitions and in museums worldwide, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Musée de I'Elysee in Switzerland, Ken Damy Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. My art has been featured in over 40 publications, including Encyclopedia of Food and Culture in the U.S.A., Italian Vogue and Zoom in Italy, and GEO in Germany. My work belongs to the permanent collections of museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Brooklyn Museum and the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris and to private collectors like Peter Norton. My book "Heavy in White" is available on request. The Globe series was shown in its entirety by the Joel Soroka Gallery at AIPAD Miami 2007, photo l.a. 2008, and was featured at AIPAD NYC in 2008."
Source: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/photographers/?inc=details&id=76926
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