奖品
Cenerentola scalza (Barefoot Cinderella) - Alessandra
Silver salt print on Fine Art baryta paper, 30x40 cm.
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” (Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton)
As part of my personal research and narration of the female condition,
I chose the feet as a visual sign.
Because the feet, in this context, can be an icon, a symbol and an indication at the same time.
I interpret the portrait as a visual sublimation of the fragments of human complexity that I can gather.
I use the portrait as research and as a story.
The awareness of the portrait leads the subject to natural reflect their mask, one tends to play the role that they believe themselves to be.
Sometimes the mask is veiled, sometimes it is naked, it rarely falls off.
For a woman this is even more true, because in a male dominated world,
masks are necessary for survival, rather than the ego.
Feet tend not to wear masks.
The feet, together with the hands, interface with the matter of the world.
The feet in particular are constant contact with the world.
They are the base and the lever to move upwards.
They are the natural means of moving and going forwards.
Barefoot Cinderella is not looking for princes or glass slippers.
When she falls under the weight of the patriarchal world, which is indebted to her for its life,
she gets up with a smile and starts walking again,
each time a step further.
This is Alessandra.
Narrator, actress, daughter, mother, single.
Stand gentlemen, for the woman.
物品 #P56832
- In condition as donated.