About this artwork
This three-part digital print reflects Alex Dordoy’s commitment to notions of fluidity. His practice blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and drawing as well as traditional and digital means of production. Each print has a background of two saturated blocks of colour over which an image of a distorted figure is printed. The figure is the South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya. Dordoy followed her story after the widely publicised controversy over the athlete’s sex during the 2009 World Athletics Championships.
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artist:Alex Dordoy (born 1985) British
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title:Caster 3D
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date created:2012
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materials:Inkjet print, 3 parts
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measurements:Each part: 135 x 90 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased from the Modern Institute 2012
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accession number:GMA 5379
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glossary:
Alex Dordoy
Alex Dordoy
Alex Dordoy was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and studied painting and printmaking at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2007. In 2009, he moved to Amsterdam to undertake a two-year residency at the independent artists’ institute, De Ateliers. Dordoy aims to expand the traditional flatness of...