Boo Saville
Emerge (Quarantine), 2020
Oil on canvas
30.4 x 25.4 cm
12 x 10 in.
12 x 10 in.
Unique
Courtesy of the artist and Brooke Benington
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Emerge (Quarantine) is a painting by Boo Saville in which she depicts a woman’s face revealing itself to the viewer, no longer masked by a PPE mask it is now...
Emerge (Quarantine) is a painting by Boo Saville in which she depicts a woman’s face revealing itself to the viewer, no longer masked by a PPE mask it is now covered by a translucent peel. The work delicately examines the relationship between self-care and societal pressure, questioning its rituals. Echoing historical beauty regimes, such as Queen Elizabeth I’s corrosive lead makeup, Saville draws a lineage between past and present demands placed on women to preserve youth at any cost.
