Louise Bourgeous
Red Room (Parents) 1994
Red Room (Child) 1994
Dark, bloody red objects, body parts. Memories of a unhappy childhood. The space is frightening and unnerving it gives the viewer a sense of fear and dread. It also reminds me of the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film The Shining.
Scene from The Shining 1980
Charles Ray
Family Romance 1993
Family Romance consists of four sculptures of the Father, Mother, son and toddler daughter. The father figure who could be seen as the head of the family, top of the hierarchy list has been shrunk down to be the size of the children as well as the mother. A crisis of authority and power.
David Altmejd
Untitled (Blue Jay), 2004
Altmejd’s sculpture of a half rotting half eaten magical creature plays with the gothic themes of decay and schlock. And also it could be considered Anti God’s law in the enlightenment time due to the face that Altmejd has created this mythical beast and changed ‘gods’ natural order.
Lnez Van Lamsweede
Lady Gaga
Again another fantasy creation linking to the theme of Frankenstein and monsters.
Gregory Crewdson
Untitled (The Father), 2007
Dramatic, theatrical, fantastical and staged. Like the Gothic themes of mistrust and melodrama Crewdson’s images are set up and false but also give a feeling of unease and nothing is quite what it seems.
Rachel Whiteread
House -1993
House – 1993
House was a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house. This work fits perfectly with the Gothic themes of Decay and also the Gothic obsession with ruins new and old.
Sardine Cans & Camembert 