{"id":27613,"title":"Portraits: Chloe / James / Pig Pen ","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1993-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":23,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artist, Regen Projects, Los Angeles en Thomas Dane Gallery","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"1997-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"portraits-chloe-james-pig-pen","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/088/851/medium_500/Opie__Portraits_series.jpeg?1674651067","cached_actor_names":"Catherine Opie","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Photography","nl":"Fotografie","fr":"Photographie"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/054/large/_WIM5104.jpg?1602665680","poster_credits":" © Photo: Wim Van Eesbeek","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Opie\u0026rsquo;s photography from the 1990s can be seen in the art historical traditions of Renaissance and Baroque imagery in Europe, often placing her subjects centrally, with vivid lighting and luminescent backgrounds. Her series \u003cem\u003ePortraits\u003c/em\u003e (1993\u0026ndash;1997) are amongst her best-known works, which portray members of queer communities, including drag kings, crossdressers, and female-to-male transsexuals, in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The works were produced during the era of the \u0026lsquo;culture wars\u0026rsquo; of the late 1990s in the U.S., which polarised society on key subjects of socio-political relevance \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;including abortion rights, religion, sexual freedom, censorship, guns, property and privacy \u0026ndash; along ideological lines between \u0026lsquo;progressives\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;conservatives\u0026rsquo;. Opie\u0026rsquo;s portraits have provided visibility to individuals and communities that have historically been marginalised in society. The politics of identity have brought aesthetics and politics into civil discourse, of which the visual arts have played a leading role, demonstrating that visual culture can be significant in debates on society and equality.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe fotografie van Catherine Opie uit de jaren 1990 past binnen de traditie van de Europese renaissance- en barokschilderkunst. Haar onderwerpen worden vaak centraal geplaatst, met direct licht en kleurrijke achtergronden. Haar reeks \u003cem\u003ePortraits\u003c/em\u003e (1993-1997) behoort tot haar bekendste werken. Daarin worden leden van queer-gemeenschappen in Los Angeles en San Francisco geportretteerd, zoals drag kings, crossdressers en vrouw-naar-man-transseksuelen. De werken werden gemaakt tijdens het tijdperk van de \u0026#39;cultuuroorlogen\u0026#39; van de late jaren 1990 in de VS, die de samenleving polariseerden tussen \u0026#39;progressieven\u0026#39; en \u0026#39;conservatieven\u0026#39; rond belangrijke sociaal-politieke onderwerpen \u0026ndash; waaronder abortusrechten, religie, seksuele vrijheid, censuur, wapens, eigendom en privacy \u0026ndash; en langs ideologische lijnen. De portretten van Opie hebben zichtbaarheid gegeven aan individuen en gemeenschappen die van oudsher in de samenleving worden gemarginaliseerd. Dankzij de identiteitspolitiek heeft esthetiek en politiek een plaats gekregen binnen het burgerlijk discours. Met name de beeldende kunst heeft hier een leidende rol gespeeld, wat aantoont dat visuele cultuur invloedrijk kan zijn in debatten rond samenleving en gelijkheid.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa photographie de Catherine Opie des ann\u0026eacute;es 1990 peut \u0026ecirc;tre vue dans les traditions historiques de l\u0026#39;art de l\u0026#39;imagerie de la Renaissance et du baroque en Europe, pla\u0026ccedil;ant souvent ses sujets au centre, avec un \u0026eacute;clairage vif et des arri\u0026egrave;re-plans luminescents. Sa s\u0026eacute;rie \u003cem\u003ePortraits\u003c/em\u003e (1993-1997) fait partie de ses \u0026oelig;uvres les plus connues, qui d\u0026eacute;peignent des membres de communaut\u0026eacute;s queer, incluant des drag kings, des travestis et des transsexuels femme-homme, \u0026agrave; Los Angeles et \u0026agrave; San Francisco. Ces \u0026oelig;uvres ont \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; produites \u0026agrave; l\u0026#39;\u0026eacute;poque des \u0026laquo; guerres culturelles \u0026raquo; de la fin des ann\u0026eacute;es 1990 aux \u0026Eacute;tats-Unis, qui polarisaient la soci\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; sur des sujets cl\u0026eacute;s d\u0026#39;importance sociopolitique, incluant le droit \u0026agrave; l\u0026#39;avortement, la religion, la libert\u0026eacute; sexuelle, la censure, les armes \u0026agrave; feu, la propri\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; et la vie priv\u0026eacute;e, selon des lignes id\u0026eacute;ologiques \u0026laquo; progressistes \u0026raquo; et \u0026laquo; conservatrices \u0026raquo;. Les portraits d\u0026#39;Opie ont donn\u0026eacute; de la visibilit\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; des individus et \u0026agrave; des communaut\u0026eacute;s historiquement marginalis\u0026eacute;s dans la soci\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute;. Les politiques identitaires ont introduit l\u0026#39;esth\u0026eacute;tique et la politique dans le discours civil, et les arts visuels y ont jou\u0026eacute; un r\u0026ocirc;le de premier plan, d\u0026eacute;montrant que la culture visuelle peut \u0026ecirc;tre importante dans les d\u0026eacute;bats sur la soci\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; et l\u0026#39;\u0026eacute;galit\u0026eacute;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}