June 8, 2010 from the series 365 Days: A Catalog of Tears
Entry/Object ID
2020.11e
Description
A woman, the artist, naked in a dark room. She looks to her open window that looks out to a city.
Context
For 365 Days: A Catalog of Tears, Nakadate, responding to the proliferation of images of happiness flooding social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, photographed herself crying every day for the entirety of 2010. The result is a massive and moving collection of images of intense fragility that eschews the traditional subject matter of portraiture and femininity: the stoic pose of the heroic male or the artificial smiles of women in advertising and commercial contexts. Rarely shown looking at the camera directly, Nakadate exposes the tensions and violence long associated with the photographic medium, which Susan Sontag famously argued was at once sexual and aggressive in its attempt to “capture” its subject matter.
Acquisition
Accession
2020.11
Source or Donor
Anthony T. Podesta
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of the Podesta Collection, Washington, DC
