About Beauty > YOUR pleasure MY pain

To achieve the normative beauty standards set up by culture, female bodies have to go through a variety of arduous and painful processes. Losing weight, waxing, wearing high heels, dyeing their hair with toxic products are some that come to mind. Female bodies endure this pain with the final goal being to be beautiful and to give visual and physical pleasure to others (usually male) bodies.

Para alcanzar los estándares normativos de belleza establecidos por la cultura, los cuerpos femeninos tienen que pasar por una variedad de procesos arduos y dolorosos. Perder peso, depilarse con cera, usar tacones altos, teñirse el cabello con productos de alta toxicidad son algunos de los que vienen a la mente. Soportamos este dolor con el objetivo final de ser bellas y dar placer visual y físico a otros cuerpos (generalmente masculinos).

YOUR pleasure MY pain
graphite, gouache and fabric on paper
12" x 16" ea.
2019
YOUR pleasure
gouache and fabric on paper
16" x 12"
2012
YOUR pleasure (detail)
gauache and fabric on paper
16" x 12"
2012
MY pain
graphite and fabric on paper
16" x 12"
2012
MY pain (detail)
graphite and fabric on paper
16" x 12"
2012