Janine Antoni main medium is sculpting but she also does performances and installation pieces. Janine’s major activities involve using everyday activities such as sleeping, bathing, and eating. Janine’s major tool she uses is her body. The reason behind a variety of her works has to do with to exploration of female sexuality and to challenge the trapping that females endure in femininity in society. While working she tends to use metaphors for these reasons. These metaphors help her audience focus on the main points of her work. This is why most of her work focuses on these everyday challenges women face, in the past and now.
All of Janine’s works are great an interesting to look at. But one of Janine’s works that I find the most talented and eye catching is labeled “ Touch” created in 2002; Click Here to View Video this installation video took a lot of dedication. This training involved months and months of strict training on learning to walk to tight rope. She wanted to bring forth and show life merging with art. In this video she inhabits the life of a tight ropewalker, while in front of a beautiful view of the sea. The rope extends horizontally with the horizon of the sea and sky. The distance of the horizon and the beach is not shown in this illusion. By Janine wearing sky blue clothes while doing this activity, helps make the illusion of her walking on water stronger. The meaning Janine is trying to portray is one focusing on their individual equilibrium.
Other works:
"Gnaw" 1992; 600 Ibs of chocolate that is gnawed away by the action of eating.
"Slumber" 1993; a full rooms length;EGG machine reads her rem sleep pattern which she weaves into a blanket while she sleeps.
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