Toilet maken

z.j. / s.a.

Willem Dooyewaard

gouache on paper

78,9 x 53 x 1,9cm (incl. lijst)

Currently not on display

Acquired in 1936

Inventory number 104

schenking / donation H.J. van Abbe

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Description

Look: neither we, the observers, nor the painter meet their eyes. Do we feel we are being allowed to look, to observe? Do we feel invited to do so? How do the colours, the portrayal of the subject’s beauty practices and poses make us, the observers, feel? Yes, we are allowed to look. We are allowed to study, to observe and be fascinated by the exotic, which remains passive and open to our gaze.Is the act of looking a metaphor for the colonial gaze? Is the act of looking a fetishization of the exotic? Is it a power game that is encouraged by the lack of confrontation?

%>Tags: gaze, fetishization, exotification, patriarchy

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