Irene bertanelli
Semiotics of female beauty I think that today we women, despite the achievements and emancipation achieved, have not yet unglued all those stereotypes and dogmas that society has always imposed on us. This performance for me is the representation of the exasperation of the need to always be perfect. I am sitting on a table as I prepare to illustrate a sad and tragic beauty routine. I am sitting on a table just like an object, meat to be slaughtered, because sometimes this is what we are for society. The heel represents the icon of femininity that has always been associated with women. The scale, the measuring tape, the waxing are for me suffocating objects that deprive the woman of the freedom to be herself, in her simple nature. Every woman must feel free to have hair or not, to wear a feminine dress or not, to wear lipstick or not. I denounce the media that have always instilled in us a “right” model to follow. In the end I take off my heels I put them on my clothes, I get rid of everything that has always forced me and I leave, free to be as I want, as we women want. #performanceart
My REMAKE of Semiotics of the Kitchen by Martha Rosler
