Eliza Hutchison
The Entertainers 2002
type C photograph
6 parts, each 63 x 49.5
Courtesy of the artist

Eliza Hutchison combines fashion, avant-gardism and vaudeville in burlesque environments. The Entertainers is a series of photographic performance portraits documenting people hanging upside down. Hutchison styles the subjects as exaggerated characters in order to capture a range of physical as well as psychological responses to the action of gravity on the body. Like film stills, the portraits present bloated faces under extreme strain questioning notions of representation and ugliness.