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This video was created to be displayed within the multi-media installation “Indoor/Outdoor” The installation features photographic images from the series “A Woman, Phenomenally” that focus on representations of women of color.
Placed in physical opposition to the photographs, the video serves as a counter narrative to the portraits. The video pairs audio from an interview of one of the photographic subjects with found video footage from the 1989 Miss USA pageant – the year the subject became a woman and I moved to America. My focus on the pose and gesture of pageant presentation juxtaposed with the opposing narratives of the photographs as a criticism of representations of beauty in mass culture…(read more)
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