Telephone by Kirsten Valentine
“I wanted to make something emotionally resonant, two people who share the kind of intimacy where nakedness is not vulnerability, one caught up in his own thoughts, the other waiting, an anticipatory moment. The background blank, the space unknown, a vague outline of a phone, a retro style cord, a tension focused on the telephone and an unheard conversation.”
Kirsten Valentine is a figurative artist whose focus lay upon the male body. Much of her work takes aim at so-called “manliness”; depictions of proud, potbellied, middle-aged men in their underpants. However for this piece the narrative she has created is tender, suspending us in a moment where the outcome is only defined by our individual perceptions.
