The Chrysalis

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The Chrysalis de Petrina Hicks ‘Belas flores que brilham sob gotas de orvalho são sensualmente lambidas por uma modelo, em um trabalho que subverte a lógica de sedução e glamourização das imagens publicitárias’
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source: noiselab

El original estilo de esta artista australiana hace que cada fotografía que captura tenga toda una historia detrás. “The Chrysalis”, una lengua muy lentamente lame una flor mientras gotas de saliva escurren entre los petalos y nuestra imaginación vuela en tan sólo 3:19. La cámara phantom y el gran ojo de la fotógrafa Petrina Hicks, capturan en 800 cuadros por segundo imágenes que van más allá de la seducción, un gran video que recomendamos para empezar esta semana.
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source: smileinyourface

Beautiful single-channel high definition Phantom video (a type of camera), which is part of Petrina Hicks‘ Beautiful Creatures series, which consists of a selection of photos, which you can find here, and this video. With her works she questions the boundaries between seduction and consumption, and the way the advertising world uses images of women in a sexual way, to sell their products.

The video shows a girl seductively licking a bunch of flowers, with her dripping saliva captured in glorious detail and high resolution. Seducing the viewer, but without selling anything.
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source: estou-semblogspot

Petrina Hicks produz fotografias me passam uma sensação de limpidez, ao mesmo tempo em que beiram o surreal. É um olhar cristalino e minimalista, em que as imagens produzidas pela artista estimulam outros sentidos além da visão.
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source: fubiznet

À travers ses étranges portraits, la photographe Petrina Hicks explore l’identité féminine en faisant référence à la mythologie et à l’histoire de l’art. Elle associe tout cela à des codes de la photographie commerciale & l’aspect lisse des affiches commerciales, comme pour dénoncer la perfection prônée par la publicité.
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source: petrinahicks

Petrina Hicks utilises the seductive and glossy language of commercial photography to create artworks that probe at the false promise of perfection, exploring photography’s ability to both create and corrupt the process of seduction and consumption.

Her work often explores female identity making reference to mythology and art history and drawing associations between these elements and contemporary image culture.

Of further interest is the symbiotic relationship between animal and human reflected in her work.

Petrina Hicks has exhibited widely though solo and groups shows in Australia, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, USA, UK, Japan, China, Mexico and Brazil.

Hicks’ work was recently selected to be shown at; Volta NY 2015, 17th International Videobrasil, Brazil, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China and Art Platform, Los Angeles.

Her work belongs to various national and international collections including: National Gallery of Australia, AGNSW, Queensland Art Gallery, Tweed River City Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria.

Hicks has been awarded various notable prizes and residencies including; 2014 Bowness Photography Prize, Josephine Ulrick Photography Award for Portraiture, 2008 ABN Emerging Artist Award, La Cite, Paris Residency, Art Gallery of NSW and 8 month Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
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source: artblart

Hicks control over the ‘presence’ of the image, her control over the presence within the image is immaculate. To observe how she modulates the colour shift from blush of pink within the conch shell, to colour of skin, to colour of background is an absolute joy to behold. The pastel colours of skin and background only serve to illuminate the richness of the pink within the shell as a form of immaculate conception (an openness of the mind and of the body). I don’t really care who is looking at this photograph (not another sexualised male gaze!) the form is just beauty itself. I totally fell in love with this work.

Forget the neo-feminist readings, one string of text came to mind: The high fidelity of a fetishistic fecundity.
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source: smhcomau

Sexuality, hiding in plain sight – Petrina Hicks has won the Bowness Photography Prize for her image Venus.
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus shows the goddess chastely covering herself with her long golden hair, yet the scallop shell she stands on would have been widely understood as symbolising female genitalia.
We can see how Hick’s update – a young woman, framed in torso, obscures her face behind a lusciously pink conch shell – plays a similarly knowing game of hide-and-seek.
Hicks says her image mines mythology and art history to explore depictions of women: “The earliest representations of women in art strongly relate around one thing; the female as life giver, fertility and childbirth.”
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source: artgallerynswgovau
Born in Sydney, Petrina Hicks studied photo media at Canberra School of Art, ANU and now lives and works in Sydney. She has produced several series of photographs in the last 4 years focusing on young people, and is particularly interested in showing the tension between beauty and imperfection.

‘Shenae and Jade’ is typical of Hicks’ unconventional portraits. The young model holds the budgie’s head in her mouth. It’s the kind of slightly dangerous behaviour which can be unnerving to observe. The freckled nose of the model is in tension with her smooth pale temples, heavily lashed closed eyes and soft white top. The luminescent background and generally pale colouration throw the headless body of the brightly coloured budgie into high relief.

Hicks has won several prizes including Sydney Life, Art & About 2004 and the Josephine Ulrich Photography Award for Portraiture 2003. She has most recently exhibited in Melbourne in ‘Light sensitive: contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund’ at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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source: iconocomunicaciones

La australiana Petrina Hicks, que vive y trabaja en Sidney, toca diferentes campos y se ha convertido en toda una referencia de la fotografía de vanguardia. Su trabajo que rezuma surrealismo, sutileza y conceptualismo absoluto para transcender más allá de un mero mensaje fotográfico y convertirse en toda una expresión de seducción visual. Los retratos y bodegones de Hicks, encuentran y desbordan belleza a partir de situaciones a veces, absurdas, otras intrigantes, muchas motivadas por la misma imperfección de sus protagonistas o por la sensación de que nada de lo que vemos, nos lleva a ninguna conclusión… por lo menos razonable.