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Photos: courtesy of the artist.
Complimenting someone for having a beautiful face could come off as a polite gesture that simultaneously ignores less favorable features.
In Kansas City photographer Jaimie Warren’s first solo museum exhibition, “Jaimie Warren: You Are So Beautiful in the Face,” 18 remarkable chromogenic color prints are largely equal parts beautiful and gross.
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“Untitled (Orange Barbeque),” for instance, adroitly provokes within viewers a struggle between drooling and vomiting. A closely cropped shot of what appears to be a vat of slightly burnt chicken swimming in glistening sauce shows what could be an appetizing meal or diseased entrails.
Well-paired by the now ex-Kemper curator Christopher Cook are Warren’s bizarre yet flirtatious “Untitled (Chloe Cake)” and “Untitled (Self Portrait, Yamamba Girls, Tokyo).”
In the first of these, a heaping slice of party dessert oozes frosting and slouches with exhaustion after an evening of celebration. In the other, the artist assumes the cake’s countenance. Flanked by costumed friends, Warren—her face hastily slapped with extreme makeup—flops her head back and closes her eyes.
With good humor, many of her photos remind that along with a beautiful face can come uncomfortable uncertainties.
Jaimie Warren: You Are So Beautiful in the Face
June 5-October 3
For more info:
Kemper at the Crossroads
33 W. 19th St., Kansas City, MO 64108
(816) 753-5784
Comments
This show was more delicious than you let on and none of the other aspects to why this show was important and how Jaimies photography functions among other comtemporary photography, and maybe some other issues such as the age of digital point and shoot,,,,and by the way those were hot wings
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