Beyond Our Bodies
Margot, Paris, France, 2017 'It’s hard to identify to its own skin when you’re born in a so called female body. Because women are mainly represented from fake and unreal prospectives in movies, books, magazines… To win the right to be represented they first have to be judged as ‘feminine’ and ‘pretty’. The definitions behind these terms being really limited, these women are expected to have all the same body, the same attitude. The body has to be young, thin, without muscles, without hair, without scars and without stories… They are not persons anymore but some beauty allegory. Disembodied. The attitude has to be smooth, soft, light, ethereal, kindly, harmless. From persons they become empty shells, while their being of flesh and blood with a unique story is being suppressed. This femininity is the negation of the person. It’s unreal and unreachable, and toxic as it is dissociative. How could one identify with this, make the link between this representation of femininity and a real body? While there is nothin
- Product Code
- ILEA002291414
- Registered date
- 2017/10/12 00:00:00
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- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
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- Middle East Images/ABACA
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- 5000 × 3338 pixel
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- 300 dpi
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- 2.62(MB)*
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