ALMA (2012)
The exhibition opens with an artwork made with the collaboration
of a child. A three-year old was presented with a photograph
of Ledare’s naked mother and given oil-based crayons with which
to scribble and draw on the image at will. The work is one of several
Ledare has made with children that, in each case, were too young
to fully read what the image represents or to understand a pose
or nudity as erotic, forbidden, sexualized, etc. The result of their
scribbling is that the image of the photographer’s “Mom” is partially
obscured, hidden behind the frenetic coloured lines drawn by a child’s
hand. The action sets the child’s “innocent” viewpoint against adults’s
socially constructed viewpoint: perception and the moral formation
of the individual are reflected in the impossibility of the child
to understand the image as an adult understands it. Significantly,
this work opens the exhibition with an evocation of the figure
of the mother, foundational to Ledare’s oeuvre, and of the element
of collaboration that underpins much of his work. But it also raises
questions fundamental to his practice about when and how we are able
to understand the meaning of images.
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