Lot
34
Reclining Female Nude
Oil on canvas, 2017
76,2 x 101,6 cm
Estimate
$2 350
Reclining Female Nude plays with tropes of classical and orientalist display, drawing parallels between the ornate clothing and the feminized, naked body. The medium of oil painting itself references the use of visual art during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in disseminating and reinforcing hegemonic views of Asian subjects.
Biographical note
Florence Yee is a visual artist and recovering workaholic based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Yee uses text-based art, sculpture, and textile installation through the intimacy of doubt. Their labour-intensive creation becomes a method of working through the restrictive belonging that we may seek from labour, language, and duty in the context of Cantonese queerness. They have been exhibited at the Gardiner Museum (2019), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2020), the Textile Museum of Canada (2020), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), among others. Their work is in the Colart Collection and the MAC-I collection, among others. Along with Arezu Salamzadeh, they co-founded the Chinatown Biennial in 2020. They are currently the codirector of Tea Base. They obtained a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from OCAD U.