My work explores the visual inspiration of collages and the literary practise ‘Cut up method’. The collages I produce which then I paint are cut up from fashion magazines and rearranged in a distorted composition. What I’m trying to convey with these outcomes of the body in fashion media is that I’m taking away the constraints over the image of the female body.

 

In my triptych oil paintings, it plays on opposites correlating together. In this case the opposites are something that is revolting but attractive at the same time. Similarly, to what the media presents; a beautiful physical image but ugly objectification of women’s bodies. The distorted composition plays on the fact, societies distorted ideas of what the female body looks like.

 

I propose to take away the female representation in Fashion media to produce the ‘ugly’, ‘uncanny’, but also ‘attractive’ images. Therefore, in a way the beautiful and the ugly are not opposites but aspects of the same thing.