EMILIE HALLARD
THE INCORRUPTIBLE BODIES
Published by Maria Inc.,2019
Book size 23 x 29.5 cm
Pages 120 pages
Softcover
Language French
Texts by Judith Butler, Antonio Centeno, Virginie Despentes, Jean Kilbourne, Daria Marx, Erin McKean, Elvira Swartch Lorenzo, Nicole Seck and Julie Rambal.
The 21st century still drags the same beauty injunctions of the last century, those of this young, white, thin, ethereal and heterosexual woman. Beauty, the first commercial capital of women, the passport to a happy marriage, professional success and social recognition. The bombardment of infinitely photoshopped images to which we are exposed alienates women and men today by a constant search for an ideal of claustrophobic beauty, leading only to frustration and self-hatred. A blinded population, starved by its diets, which becomes terribly manipulable and obedient.
Refusing the norm means choosing, both from vulnerability and enthusiasm, to be incorruptible, true to oneself, honest, punk in the face of a capitalist system that engenders monstrous children of uniformity and consumerism, all from the same postcolonial patriarchal mold.
For the artist, having refused the norm, cherished and desired bodies of all ages, sizes, genders and colors, is to deconstruct standards of beauty, it is to begin a quest for honesty, empowerment, acceptance and self-confidence, it is to collect their words and to look tenderly at his peers.
These incorruptible bodies are a celebration of diversity, improbability, ambiguity, androgyny and non-binarity.
Incorruptible Bodies is a feminist, queer and anti-racist declaration of love.
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The 21st century still carries the same beauty injunctions of the last century, those of this young, white, thin, ethereal and straight woman. Beauty, the first commercial capital of women, the passport to a happy marriage, professional success and social recognition. The bombardment of endless photoshopped images to which we are exposed alienates women and men today through a constant search for an ideal of claustrophobic beauty, which only leads to frustration and self-hatred. A blinded population, starved by its regimes, which becomes terribly manipulable and obedient.
To refuse the norm is to choose, both from vulnerability and enthusiasm, to be incorruptible, true to oneself, honesty, punk in the face of a capitalist system which generates monstrous children of uniformity and consumerism, all from the same postcolonial patriarchal mold.
For the artist, to have refused the norm, cherished and desired bodies of all ages, sizes, genres and colors, is to deconstruct standards of beauty, it is to begin a quest for honesty, empowerment, acceptance and self-confidence means taking their word for it and looking tenderly at one's peers.
These incorruptible bodies are a celebration of diversity, improbability, ambiguity, androgyny and non-binarity.
Incorruptible Bodies are a declaration of feminist, queer and anti-racist love.