Hyper Venus (2022)
In the context of the digital, hypermediated world we live in, the fervour for avatars and human-machine hybrids describes a society where the barriers between humans and technology are blurred, and new lifeforms, not entirely organic, embody the ideal of merging machine with organism to transcend the limitations of the human body.
Hyper Venus is a series that explores the obsession contemporary culture has with the pursuit of self-improvement, and the relationship between the female body, beauty, and technology.
The artist integrates her body with a combination of wigs, props, gadgets and beauty products, simultaneously obscuring and transforming herself into a series of hybrid, strange creatures, blurring the distinction between organic and artificial, human and cybernetic. Through the addition of non-organic components, she deconstructs and reinvents her appearance, generating a hyper-reality in which the female body is used to satirize the human desire for perfection and the fascination with technology in the contemporary world.
These uncategorizable, futuristic creatures, human yet unfamiliar, familiar yet uncanny, can be interpreted as an allegory of society's twisted perception of women’s bodies.
