"Natasha, Peter, Zack and Imogen pose against a garden trellis, bathed in the soft light of a spring afternoon. Man and wife, with one boy and one girl, they are the very embodiment of the wholesome nuclear family...except that they're all naked. Sort of.
In fact, they're clad head to toe in hand-knitted mohair bodysuits, from which sprout gender-appropriate appendages and thick strands of body hair. Naked suits, if you will. Mom stares blankly ahead, her pillowy pink breasts askew, as her little girl reaches over to poke at dad's fuzzy knitted member. Father and brother look on, grinning. Somehow, perhaps because the suits are so goofy and the subjects so clearly delighted, this scenario manages not to be creepy.
In Anna Maltz's new series One Size Fits All, families of various configurations don the same suits and pose for conventional portraits, to riotous effect.....Whether Maltz is challenging traditional definitions of family and gender, exploring societal taboos or simply having a ball dressing up her friends, these images aptly convey both the tension and liberation of slipping into a costume to become someone new."
Anna Maltz: One Size Fits All was on display at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, 49 Geary Street, 4th floor, San Francisco, CA in 2004. taken from this review.
2 comments:
My church has a lot of 'fuzzy knitted members'. Not quite the same thing. But a lot less CREEPY!
For some reason, this sort of thing really cracks me up. I have to say I really admire this kind of creativity. I searched for more stuff by Anna Maltz after doing this entry and I discovered some other body suits that were in the same spirit.. One of those was Superman. (somehow a superman suit that is KNITTED just seems so wacky; I love it!)
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/midlseks/maltz.htm
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