Not Because My Heart is Gone; Simply The Other Side: Francesca Woodman’s Relational and Ephemeral Subjectivity at the Limit of The Image
Not Because My Heart is Gone; Simply The Other Side: Francesca Woodman’s Relational and Ephemeral Subjectivity at the Limit of The Image

Summary/Abstract: Francesca Woodman’s personal history, more specifically her suicide at the age of only twenty-two years old, is often used as an heuristic framework through which her highly intricate and complex photographic work is read retroactively. This essay argues that such readings fundamentally miss Woodman’s fascination with liminality and states of transition precisely in order to contain her fundamentally ambiguous images within a generic narrative that serves to cast her in the role of a tragic, female artist. Backman Rogers wholly rejects this sexist conflation of the artist’s biography with her art.

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