Jenny Saville's exhibition "Gaze" at the Albertina Museum highlights her career-long dedication to portraying human flesh with empathy. In exploring simultaneous realities shaped by digital technology, Saville draws attention to the isolation many experience amid their connectedness. Her paintings, particularly the series titled "Fates," confront traditional depictions of femininity and bodily forms, highlighting a fractured identity through exaggerated and distorted representations of women, reminiscent of ancient goddesses yet distinctly modern in interpretation.
"If you sit on a bus or take the subway, everybody's on a device. So you've got this sort of mundane, lived reality, and then this screened reality. If you've got twenty people on the subway train, those twenty people are probably all over the globe, or even in outer space."
"Fate 2 depicts a woman seated in a chair with a third leg hanging over the arm. The figure’s midsection was scrambled into colored marks, suggesting a fractured identity."
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