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A woman is a woman is a woman - to paraphrase Gertrude Stein once again to the point and for obvious reasons - but the reality of womanhood is totally different from the symbolic representations of woman in art history. The images of women offered to us, such as the Madonna, Pandora, Judy Garland and Monroe, have acquired their weight through the artist's approach, through what he wants (or wanted) to express via/in woman. In an attempt to escape from this confined image and to meet the need to give it a new and more personal weight, the woman artist - in this case Rose Garrard - takes over the role of the models. She feels ill at ease in this strait jacket and the craving for a wider range of alternatives becomes steadily more acute. No innocent Madonna, no sex-symbol designed merely for pleasure, but the mythic weight of Pandora provides a key: she denied humanity its gift of paradise, but endowed it with a more realistic world instead.
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Sonja van der Burg
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Camera: David Oakley, Richard Dellow, Lights: Michael Sutclitle, Editing: Robin Parsons, Sound: Olivier France, David Bailey, Sound mixing: David Cunningham, Set design: Kathryn Pearce, Production: Anna Ridley/Annalogue, Channel Four, With: Rose Garrard, Suzanne Perry
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