Jo Spence

Remodelling Photo History: Realization

1981–2

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In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: Sixty years

Free entry
Artist
Jo Spence 1934–1992
Medium
Photograph, tinted gelatin silver print on paper; collaboration with Terry Dennett
Dimensions
Support: 695 x 498 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by Tate Patrons 2014
Reference
P80409

Display caption

These works, grouped together as Remodelling Photo History explores artifice, staging and role play. Here, Spence presents herself as a domestic worker, laughing as she reads a volume of Sigmund Freud’s writing, or holding out a bottle of washing-up liquid. In a parody of advertising imagery, Spence alludes to the objectification of women as home-maker, cleaner, and object of sexual pleasure.

Gallery label, September 2018

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