Reflections

Reflections, 2022
Silkscreen-printing on porcelain and wood, mirrors and human hair
Installation dimensions: 60 x 160 x 55 cm

This work offers a space for reflection on observing and being observed. We live in a consumer society that enacts beauty canons and promotes valuing people based on their physical appearance instead of their personal qualities. For this reason, the installation uses as constructive elements different cosmetic containers that promise to improve us and show a better version. The saturation aspect and the moiré effect refer to the accumulation of distorted gazes, which could affect behaviour and self-acceptance. The work tries to make visible this problem that has worsened in the pandemic period due to isolation or the increased use of cameras in video calls. Accepting the image of oneself, reflected in the mirror, is a process that includes reflection on human values.