Voyeurs

A reoccurring interest which I address through my artistic practice of performance, installations and self portraits, is the objectification of women. I often use my own body as a site of making through the representation of female characters that yield a reflection on society and the norms I experience as a woman.

For this project the research goes into the voyeuristic aspect of social media and how this affects the way women are viewed in our society. I am using ‘the peepshow’ as a physical representation to show this. Peep shows act as a concept and base structure for the work I have created. The peep show works as a translation of the objectification of women and a space to interrogate the male gaze.

My project and the grounding research show that comparisons can easily be drawn between the voyeuristic behavior and environments of peep shows and our current use of social media, both heavily relying on the perpetuation of the relationship between the objectification of women and the male gaze.