Notes on Beauty Queens - December 16, 2016

February 9, 2017 - Materials

Gallery Print Glanz

Hinter Plexi / Acrylglas

Aludibond

Laminiert auf dunklem Hartschaum?

http://www.saal-digital.de/wandbilder/preise/

https://www.myposter.nl/de/foto-acrylglas

February 5, 2017 - Artist Statement

Starting point for my project WORLDPEACE is a feeling of overwhelming disbelief towards recent political and social developments such Trump becoming the American president as well as the rising of right tendencies in Europe.

The body of work consists of a series of appropriated images shot at American beauty pageants. The pictures focus on the very moment of the crowning of the beauty queens. Zoomed in on their frantic faces I explore the impact of exstatic emotions stripped of their original context. Extreme joy and happiness transcend themselves into something that seems to foreshadow doom.

The larger than life-sized images are standing on the floor, ideally surrounding the spectator in a circle.

January 25, 2017

Unpack the important and complex issue of me putting something upon the women that's not there

-> Berger: Every image embodies a way of seeing. The photographers way of seeing is reflected in his choice of subject. Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing. The images become part of an argument which has little or nothing to do with its original independent meaning. The power of mechanical images.

Explain political commentary

Read about Re-Mediation

Explore more: Fun Factor: I seem to enjoy the discomfort and feel pity at the same time

Think about the effects of different arrangements: circular, corridor

Think about evidence of movie posters

Look at Anthropologists on the subject of Beauty Pageants

December 16, 2016

Ambivalence: Authentic performance versus Staged emotions

Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance

Vulnerability

At the hight of Joy an opposed truths seems to be revealed. To me the women seem to screem I want to break free from this fucked up system

Note: Candidates of beauty pageants have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc

Ine: Bataille on ecstasy