Roxanne Series by Julia Riddiough

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‘It's a strange sensation this double life: a sense of always looking at myself through the eyes of others.' Roxanne A Brooks Art is delighted to announce the exhibition of the Roxanne Series by London-based artist and photographer Julia Riddiough. The Roxanne Series of photographs embrace the debate that surrounds pornography and voyeurism by exploring the border between art, photography and the representation of women. This series of photographs looks at how women are portrayed and depicted and references can be made to historical-western European painting and erotic art. The painting by Jean-Léon Gérà ´me Phryne revealed before the Areopagus (1861). Phryne was a much-desired courtesan who was accused of obscene acts, brought before a court of men where she was displayed naked. In this painting, the judges before her show a variety of reactions from dismay to arousal and sheer lust and after seeing her body she was acquitted.