Caroline Walker
So much of what I’m interested in is illusion and reality, a mixture between something that really happened with these people I’ve met, and something more constructed or imagined in the paintings.
Caroline Walker via studiointernatinal.com, 2017
Caroline Walker’s (1982, United Kingdom) paintings focus on women within psychologically charged public spaces such as hotels and beauty parlors. Using staged photographs as her source material, Walker’s intimate scenes build upon the language of city life with the pronounced quality of a voyeuristic gaze. Her quietly charged, often luxurious spaces, frame half-told narratives that complicate traditional ideas of the woman as subject. The works explore femininity in our modern, image-conscious age.
