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Artworks
Jo Spence
Photo therapy: Transformations, 1984Four colour photographs mounted by the artist onto black cardboard.40 x 30 cms 15 11/16 x 11 12/16 insSeries: 5. Photo Therapy Collaborations (1984-90)12107Provenance
Jo Spence Memorial Archive
Richard Saltoun Gallery, LondonExhibitions
Jo Spence: Work (Part 2) Studio Voltaire. London, 12 June - 11 August 2012.
Jo Spence : from Fairy Tales to Phototherapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection, Arnolfini Bristol, (18th May 2020 - 20th June 2021) (this print)
Literature
Jo Spence, Putting myself in the picture: A political, personal, and photographic autobiography, 1986, p.181 and front cover.
Jo Spence: Beyond the Perfect Image. Photography, Subjectivity, Antagonism (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005) illus. p272, p274 and p32Collaboration with Rosy Martin. Four colour photographs mounted by the artist onto black cardboard. Each photograph: 18.1 x 12.6 cms. Total dimensions: 40 x 30 cms A closely related set...Collaboration with Rosy Martin.
Four colour photographs mounted by the artist onto black cardboard.
Each photograph: 18.1 x 12.6 cms.
Total dimensions: 40 x 30 cms
A closely related set of four works is included in Jo Spence, Putting myself in the picture: A political, personal, and photographic autobiography, 1986, p.181. The accompanying text is as follows:
"As a child I did everything possible, not to be like my mother. Family Romance? Cinderella, Ugly Sister, Fairy - I tried them all. On the other hand (now using my brains) I still try and please surrogate daddies. Again, I fail.
Ageing, angry, alone, ill, I regard the constellation of imaginary selves. Finally, with joy, I picture my dead parents. In memory I can be them, Moving beyond the past I become
My own parent."
Works from this series are also reproduced on the cover of Jo Spence, Putting myself in the picture: A political, personal, and photographic autobiography, 1986.
