Janine Antoni is a contemporary artist who focuses on the interrelationships of her body and different
parts of it. For the piece she did called “ Lick and Lather”, she said: “I wanted to work with the tradition of selfportraiture but also with the classical bust...I had the idea that I would make a replica of myself in chocolate and in soap, and I would feed myself with my self, and wash myself with my self. Both the licking and the bathing are quite gentle and loving acts, but what’s interesting is that I’m slowly erasing myself through the process. So for me it’s about that conflict, that love/hate relationship we have with our physical appearance, and the problem I have with looking in the mirror and thinking, ‘Is that who I am?’”
All of the AR pieces have a documentation quality to the image I collected. There is situation that I was
recording, that is a very complicated social, cultural, political situation. For myself, the AR system I used has such a revolutionary function to the process of my video works.