2013

Who owns who through the gaze ?
These nosy snaps of female characters photographed in their intimacy draw a parallel between the so-called feminine sensuality and the images with a teasing aesthetic.
The female image in the media and social networks is constantly sexualized and sensualized to give oneself to the gaze of others. Inspired by ideals from small and big screens, their bodies put themselves in scene to seek the approval of the glance of the others. Their identity hopes to get closer to the one of a muse lusted after. Upon this settled superficiality, upon this intimacy made dispensable, the gaze becomes an act of possession on these bodies.
However, if the position of the viewer is that of the power, what about the inflection provoked by the one gazed, who knows how to captivate and seduce ?
Because the act of seduction is also an act of indoctrination. Through appearances, what is lusted is also what enslaves us. This is how I compare the mechanisms of female seduction to those of the advertising propaganda. The woman who gives herself to the gaze can be in full power on this one.