A social commentary on the interconnectivity of pollution and plastic surgery in a post-feminist critique about what women will do to transform their image, to please others, under the pretext of empowering themselves. Ignoring the natural cycles of life, plastic surgery has brought female aesthetics into the realm of the grotesque. In parallel, the disfigurement of the earth, humanity’s ignorance of the environment and refusal to make conscious the adverse effects of pollution. In “Stitches and Bitches”, a giant doll is caught behind the façade of a storefront. She awaits her plastic surgery patients with calculated gestures. Audience members are invited to interact with her, inspiring the transformation of the installation. The public and private spheres interlace by means of repeated physical actions and visual narratives so that the boundary between both disappear, and the horror of our contemporary notions of beauty are irreversibly exposed.
Date: Dec 26th 2009- Jan 2nd 2010
Location: Fadi Mogabgab Contemporary Art Gallery, Window Front, Gemmayze Str.
Admission: Free
Info: 01 567 288