Helen Chadwickwiki
'Right from early art school, I wanted to use the body to create a sense of inner relationships with the audience.'
Self Portrait
Vanity
In this portrait Chadwick revives the sumptuous spatial complexities of 17th-century baroque art and architecture (and its 18th-century parody, rococo) to dramatise the richness of experience, that the self is not simple, that the mind's experience of inhabiting a body is mysterious. Her self-portrait photograph is both hedonistic and self-mocking. But it remains a "vanitas", a study of sensual pleasures that are doomed to be destroyed by time. guardian
