Screen-printing on porcelain (CMYK), aluminium, stainless steel wire and wood
Installation view
Hanging piece: 80 x 23,5 x 3,5 cm
Wall piece: 40 x 40 x 4,5 cm
This work offers a space for reflection on the desire to achieve beauty cannons. It features containers of dietary supplements commonly recommended for healthy skin, symbolizing the accumulation of efforts to meet these social concerns, which are often closely related to consumption.
Both pieces incorporate fragmented self-portraits. The hanging piece includes a self-portrait on each side, while the wall piece blends and fragments both photographs, obscuring their origin and resulting in an abstract composition. This act metaphorically alludes to how we adapt to beauty standards, altering our physical appearance.
One of the pieces includes versions of the definition of “hope,” extracted from the Cambridge Dictionary. By rearranging the words, the meaning becomes redirected and ultimately incomprehensible. This manipulation of text and images is a metaphor for pursuing idealized beauty, which can frequently be elusive and enigmatic, mirroring the often unfathomable nature of such aspirations.
This work is part of the Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum Collection (Foshan, China).
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