
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
214 x 275 cm
Purchased 1993
© Sally Smart, 1993/Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney 2003
Photography: Robert Colvin
The free association of images celebrates the play element in art, but it also entails the dismantling of identity and a critique of representation, since it imitates the arbitrary way media images construct our idea of reality. … [Smart’s] purpose was to deconstruct traditional conceptions of the mind, body, femininity and reality.3
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