Monday, March 28, 2011

Leigh Ledare




Pretend you’re Actually Alive” (2008) is a chronicle by artist LEIGH LEDARE, about his unusually intimate relationship with his mother, which features photographs of her in the buff or with her young lovers and written anecdotes.Using the format of a journal, he invites the viewer to bear witness to his private life and more particularly to his complex intimacy with his mother, a highly sexualised persona and a former professional ballerina who turned stripper."-Simon Baker

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