Artist: Bridget Baker
Essay by: Kathryn Smith
Gallery: João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town
Dates: 8 February 2006 – 25 February 2006
Website: (review) http://artthrob.co.za/06mar/reviews/joao.html
Pages: 16
Bridget Baker\\\’s show incites, even in its loquacious title, a carefully styled nostalgic cinematic grandeur. Alluding to the 1970\\\’s housewife, and the enduring role of woman as victim in contemporary film and storytelling, Baker\\\’s titling sentence also suggests the sensible woman as trapped in a role of passivity, dutifully turning over and returning to her prone lifeless state. In this show, Baker presents three intertwining heroines, The Blue Collar Girl, The Maiden and The Sunday Morning Wonder Woman (SMWW).
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