From Space 2, Providence, Rhode Island

Francesca Woodman, American, 1958 - 1981

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1975-1976

Gelatin silver print

11/40

Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Marina and Andrew E. Lewin, Class of 1981

© Woodman Family Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

2013.12.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

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The title of the series—Space Squared—acts as a play on words, suggesting Francesca Woodman’s interest in both in the physical environment and that which is reproduced by the photograph itself. The artist crouches within a display case in a shadowed room, balancing on the wooden slats and pressing her nude body against the glass. This liminal scene is captured in a small, constricting photograph, and the entire print is enclosed in a paradoxically large frame.

Though seemingly trapped inside the case, Woodman reaches one hand around the other side, as if taking control of her own narrative. While she is nude, she does not seem vulnerable, refusing to be perceived as just an object on display.

From the 2023 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 111, Taking Up Space: Forming Body and Identity, curated by Milanne Berg '24, Homma Family Intern

Course History

WRIT 5, Memoirs of Family, Ellen Rockmore, Fall 2013

WGST 10, Sex, Gender, and Society, Giavanna Munafo, Fall 2013

WGST 37.2, GEOG 41, Gender, Space and Islam, Jennifer Fluri, Fall 2013

NAS 42, WGST 40, Gender Topics in Native American Life, Vera Palmer, Fall 2013

ANTH 31, WGST 36, Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Lauren Gulbas, Fall 2013

NAS 42, WGST 40, Gender Topics in Native American Life, Vera Palmer, Fall 2013

SART 30, Photography II, Fall 2013

SART 29, Photography I, Fall 2013

SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015

SART 30, SART 75, Photography II and III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2019

SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2019

SART 29/SART 75, Photography 1/Photography 3, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2020

SART 29.01, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Fall 2022

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 111, Taking Up Space: Forming Body and Identity, Milanne Berg, Class of 2024, Homma Family Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 4 March - 22 April 2023.

Shadowplay: Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art, Owen Robertson Cheatham and Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 10-December 8, 2013.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2013.

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