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# Project Description A Fleur de Peau Flora Vever Summary Final work My name is Flora and I am an artist photographer living between Marseille (France) and Nairobi (Kenya). My artistic work, in between focuses on women and questions how the female body is defined as a social and aesthetic object. My work celebrate women's power, for example via exploring the figure of the witch as a political and feminist figure. The images are performative: I create them to reclaim spaces, words, but also bodies, my body. My name is Flora and I am an artist photographer living between Marseille (France) and Nairobi (K... College London College of Communication Course MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online) Graduation year 2023 This work is about the female body as a space of contradictions and tensions. The images question the “to-be-looked-at-ness” that women experience in the public space, drawing on my own experience of being a woman. They reflect the expectations, both internal and external, that this scrutiny brings, and question how it shapes behaviours. I want to explore how this gaze traps women, how it ties us and prevents our bodies from moving freely. Not being able to control who watches, how and when triggers a feeling of dispossession: our own bodies are not entirely ours anymore. The images depict the untamed, the raw power that women’s bodies carry as a way to re-own our bodies. Using the colour red as a guiding thread feels like evidence. To me, it represents the rawness of the female body, it talks about its strength, its capacity to give life, its capacity to bleed. Physically altering the images is a way to delve into those questions. Final work How dispossession feel like Research and process A Fleur de Peau - The image as an object For this project, I experimented physically working on the images, vs. apprehending the images digitally. I experimented with tearing apart, burning, scratching, painting and embroidering. Physically working on the images is a way to go deeper into the work: the image becomes an object. Stitching, painting, burning, and scratching allow me to use my own body in the creative process. It adds meaning by helping me to depict the array of emotions linked to the experience of being a woman. Share this project This work is about the female body as a space of contradictions and tensions. The images question the “to-be-looked-at-ness” that women experience in the public space, drawing on my own experience of being a woman. They reflect the expectations, both internal and extern... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Body Identity Sexuality Body Performance Women
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