Shadi Ghadirian's work 'Untitled 1' from the series Like Everyday explores issues of identity, gender and social and physical restrictions. What I see as familiar between this artists work and my own is the desire to investigate the relationship between the natural body and the covered body - the tension.
Also interesting in this piece is that the garment or covering is restricting by being loose, rather than tight. The covering invokes a feeling of stifling or suffocation, the body inside seemingly entombed, possibly a cadaver covered in the sheets of death.
References:
img1 dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions.asp?p_3&y=2009
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