Ketty La Rocca, Craniologia I & V, 1973 (x-ray and handwriting on plexiglass, 70×50 cm)
In Craniologia, La Rocca has superimposed her finger over the image of her cranium. The position of the finger looks almost as if it is poised to ‘shh’. Around the edges of the form, she has written ‘you’, ‘you’, ‘you’, again and again, like mantra. When La Rocca writes ‘you’, does she mean ‘me’? And, in viewing her work, is it ‘I’ that imposes this distance between us, between the artist and the viewer?
countervisuality 