My work shines a light on how we women strive for, but fail, perfection in our selves and our homes. Anonymous Woman is a fictional, humorous, yet critical series about women, domestic identity, and the internal drama of a lone female figure in her imaginary home, created and photographed in the studio.
Patty Carroll (b.1946, Chicago, IL) is known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970s. Her project, Anonymous Women consists of a 4-part series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing women and their complicated relationships with domesticity. By camouflaging the figure in drapery and/or domestic objects, Carroll creates a dark and humorous game of hide-and-seek between her viewers and the Anonymous Woman. The photographs are published in two monographs, Anonymous Women, released in 2017, and Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise, 2020.
