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interjection

Mimicry is perhaps one of the most powerful visual tools in postmodern art. Ghada Amer's mixed media works are marvelous in that they combine repetitive patterns of nude female bodies stitched onto large-scale canvases in familiar painterly orientation.

The New Albers (2002) is no different, in that it interjects a domestic, hyper-sexual visual language into a discourse of art that was largely male dominated. The New Albers serves not only as a reference to Joseph Alber's 1955 piece Homage to the Square, Amer's work conflates pornagraphy, art, and tropes of domesticity, all in a dizzing and confrontational abstract formation. You can check out more of Amer's work in London at the Gagosian Gallery.