My practice emerges from years of working in the fashion and magazine industry, creating idealised representations of women where I perpetuate a gaze that transforms women into objects of idealised display. Over time, I have become increasingly aware of the contradictions between the appearance of effortless beauty and the regulatory systems that sustain it.
Drawing on feminist strategies of parody and collage, my work seeks to unravel the fictions of perfection that shape contemporary visual culture, opening critical space where feminine embodiment can be seen not as a perfected surface but as a site of tension. Through sculpture, digital collage, and video, I engage critically with the visual systems I have been complicit in. The exhibition Pose/ssed plays on the dual meaning of the pose as both performance and possession, reflecting my position as both participant in and critiquing fashion’s representational apparatus. I reimagine Aphrodite of Milos, long emblematic of ideal beauty, as a central motif, interrogating how the mythic image of the perfect body persists from ancient sculpture through fashion photography to contemporary digital culture, ultimately. exposing beauty as a persistent disciplinary system rather than a timeless ideal.
Angie Lázaro
