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  • Linder
  • Untitled 1976
  • Photomontage on paper
  • 272 x 195 mm
  • Purchased from Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London (General Funds) 2007
  • © Linder
  • T12502
Linder

Over the last 30 years Linder’s work has encompassed collage, photography, printmaking and performance. However, she is probably best known for the confrontational and highly politicised collages she made in the late 1970s. Collage provided Linder with a mode of working that seemed particularly in tune with the sensibilities of the punk scene in which she was immersed. It enabled her to create jarring juxtapositions and genuinely transgressive images that were underpinned by incisive feminist politics. Untitled depicts a kitchen scene in which a female figure is naked and bound, with her hands apparently tied behind her back. She kneels in a saucepan beside the sink on a kitchen counter, with her head replaced by a blender. She is surrounded by large amounts of fruit and vegetables: the makings of a meal that, one assumes, she is expected to produce. It is a highly charged image of sexualised slavery.

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