Ultra Venus (2016-2021)
In the emergent social contexts of a digitized and globalizing world, human bodies are constantly monitored and transformed through their interactions with technology. The compulsion to intervene with and alter ourselves has become an absolute imperative, which in turn produces society's obsession and anxieties about bodily appearance.
Employing a satiric wit, Ultra Venus presents a bizarre catalogue of self-portraits, in which the artist wears selected props, beauty tools and devices, designed to pamper and improve the body's appearance and functionality, such as wigs, compression corsets, body shapers, anti-wrinkle masks, eye massagers and many more.
The spectacle of the female body, disguised and transformed through the addition of non-organic components, is used to deconstruct representations of femininity and explore the complex relationship between technology and the body.
Every picture uncovers a fracture in self-conception and a solitary sense of self, generating a breakdown of the distinction between the beautiful and the grotesque.
