When contemplating images of childhood and particularly adolescence, we enter a complicated site of desire and longing, inextricably tied to the yearning for our own lost innocence—a kind of memorialising of the last steps on the path to adulthood. At the same time, our desire to protect children and preserve the wobbly sanctity of childhood ensures that there will always be a different kind of anxiety attached to looking at these images.
In ‘Teenage Riot: Representations of Adolescence in Contemporary Art’ (Artlink, vol. 21, no. 4), K P Hall wrote: When contemplating images of childhood and particularly adolescence, we enter a complicated site of desire and longing, inextricably tied to the yearning for our own lost innocence—a kind of memorialising of the last steps on the path to adulthood. At the same time, our desire to protect children and preserve the wobbly sanctity of childhood ensures that there will always be a different kind of anxiety attached to looking at these images.
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