ARTIST STATEMENT
Female as Object is a series of womanly stories – inconclusive and open to interpretation; beautifully miserable beings poetically poised to suggest an uncertain end. Drawing inspiration from modern pop culture and high-end fashion magazines, appropriating famous advertisements, photographs, and film stills that touch on an all-too-American sense of emptiness. The compositions are divorced from the framework of a larger narrative, taking seemingly kinetic moments in time – actions frozen from an unknown narrative and recontextualized into a new narrative that questions reality or fantasy along with various points of literary perspective.
Captivated by the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, especially the dynamic relations between conscious and unconscious motivation. Maria Maneos
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