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Archeology Of The Self

1997

two bodies seen from the back, one with a seam of quartz in place of a spine, the other with fossils embedded in it

In this work the body is represented as ambiguous, androgynous, sculptural and monumental. Alluding to both geological formation and artifact, these images contemplate natural/cultural constructions of self. Fossils, resembling tattoos, are depicted embedded in the back to explore ideas of the body as a territory partly formed and occupied by its own (cultural) history and partly consciously controlled.

Two digitally manipulated photographs as inkjet prints: each 50cm x 60cm. 

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​© Alexa Wright, 2026

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