Jean Conner American, b. 1933
POWER, 1980
paper collage
18 x 10 3/8 in
45.7 x 26.4 cm
45.7 x 26.4 cm
Further images
Jean Conner’s imagined scenes — playful and uncanny, but formally sophisticated — are knotty riddles in which people, images, and places come together in extraordinary, and often impossible, ways. With...
Jean Conner’s imagined scenes — playful and uncanny, but formally sophisticated — are knotty riddles in which people, images, and places come together in extraordinary, and often impossible, ways. With imagery sourced primarily from advertisements in the women’s magazines that developed in the American post-war economic boom, Conner fragments, re-contextualizes and re-stages narratives of middle-class life.
In this ingenious piece she layers images of technology, labor, and connectivity in prescient ways. Created nearly 20 years before the imagery in the film The Matrix (1999), we see a man plugged into a gridded circuit board that appears to be taking over the manual efforts of the men in the foreground.
In this ingenious piece she layers images of technology, labor, and connectivity in prescient ways. Created nearly 20 years before the imagery in the film The Matrix (1999), we see a man plugged into a gridded circuit board that appears to be taking over the manual efforts of the men in the foreground.