Under Blue explores gender politics through beauty, pleasure, disgust, danger, violence, the erotic and the artificial, the dance of the brush and the movement of the camera, imparting an uneasy feeling of voyeuristic power to the viewer. Through the exclusive use of close-ups, the work creates alienation of the image. The fragmented body, body movement, color and textures appear between real and surreal, the viewer’s attention to those colors and textures is greatly rewarded, even though there is less referential context. At the same time it blurs and complicates the meaning of looking.
