Colleen Asper in Frieze

What happens when representing the body is a trap? When the gaze is always “male?” When representation a dialectic? How do you flip that? Colleen Asper explores existential portraiture, the facts of bodies, not the truth of the women represented. Including her own body which she will represent as a board the exact size and scale of her own body, held out by her two hands before her, while she herself is obscured, while her face is concealed. There are so many reasons I love Asper's work and I write about her in the essay “New Questions” in the March issue of Frieze.