Collection Highlights
Linder United Kingdom, b. 1954
23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in
One of the most significant British feminist artists of her generation, Linder (born Linda Mulvey, 1954) is renowned for her confrontational collages and photomontages that critique the commodification of the female body in contemporary culture. Working from her kitchen table, she uses scissors, scalpels and glue to carefully construct surreal and unnerving images that typically combine material from pornographic, fashion and interior design magazines. Linder’s works have previously been compared to those by Berlin Dada artists Hannah Höch and John Heartfield. The present work is an homage to Salvador Dali and his Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (also known as Barcelona Sphynx), a satire on the sexualization of child stars by Hollywood. Linder’s work refers to falsification related to the use of social media, when images are cut from the web and pasted onto bodies of pornographic models (deepfaking). Here it is Linder “deepfaking” herself positioning her face on the body of a Playboy cover, adding mentions to her career like the scissors.
Provenance
The artist
Modern Art, London
Exhibitions
London, Hayward Gallery, Linder: Danger Came Smiling, 11 February – 5 May 2025. The exhibition travelled to Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 23 May - 19 October; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 7 November 2025 - 8 March 2026; and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, 27 June - 20 September 2026