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UNCENSORED
Medium : Digital Painting,
Photoshop, Drawing Tablet
Dimension : 42.0 cm x 59.4 cm
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This Studio series is a reflection on the sick body and its sexuality. It began by exploring the notions of female sexuality and how it’s over sexualised in today’s pop culture context.
The thought behind the project started off with personal confrontation of the idea in real life. When studying the sexualized and desired bodies of both the male and female, it’s important to look at what constitutes as fairness. The over sexualization of women is something that has become prevalent in today’s pop culture society. “Sex sells” is a pre dominant visual aesthetic in all forms of media, affecting our everyday reality and how we form our daily practices. It’s not just female body which is sexualized, men are objectified too in today’s media. While the ubiquity of sexualization of the male body is yet to be seen in the same way as the female body, is this what we would consider to be fairness? To have the ubiquity of both the genders to be equal?
“Sex sells” in all forms of media today is a fact that cannot be argued against but when the idea is brought on to everyday reality, something is very wrong.
The project started with the aim to desexualize the female body which soon changed to self expression as the artist found herself admitted in the hospital diagnosed with a para-ovarian cyst. This process led to her body’s deterioration after the surgical procedure. Even though the surgical procedure made her body healthier in the long run at that moment it seemed to have wounded the body inside out.
She felt lost inside her own body, which dint seem her own, yet the society’s judgments and sexual comments dint stop. That’s when realization hit – The society’s gaze is their own, she cannot change it but can express her thoughts in the most impactful way.
This was the start for a self-portrayal series.
The self portrayal image tends to speak to a larger audience by using realistic fiction, the story that is portrayed is true but its representation is imaginative and surrealistic.
The surgical process of removing the unwanted ‘cyst’, said to be a deformity without knowing the cause of its actual existence, works as symbolism. It symbolises the unwanted gestures of oversexualising the female body in everyday reality and the necessity for it to be ‘removed’ or stopped. It also hints at the fact that the process of doing so might seem painful or impossible but it is a necessary step that needs to be taken in order to live a “healthier” life.