Body is in conversation with the female nude and its various representations throughout the historical canon of art history.
Using solarization and working within the medium of cyanotypes, a 19th century photographic printing technique historically used for scientific catalog, we position the body in a format that defamiliarizes the nude and subverts its historic context. Using this medium, we challenge and recontextualize the presentation of the female body in a rendition akin to an anatomical catalog.
The body is singular and removed, swimming in a sea of blue devoid of any foreground, and censored to the point of anonymity. Challenging the history of the female nude as an art object through the use of censorship; we disrupt the gaze of the figure herself and by extension, the viewer.












Aryana Moghadasi
Cyanotypes
Aryana Moghadasi
Photography
Aryana Moghadasi Tori Vargas Emma Smith Anna Sansbury