AMINA JENG

"I wanted to explore the idea of presentability and being the image society wants to represent. After looking at fashion photography books from different time periods, I had noticed a common theme of presentable white women being the subject of those images. After research, I realised that art has been used as a way of communicating power. The images represent the perfect woman. I responded to this through giving myself, as a black woman, the same level of power that the presentable white woman is given in the images through styling and posing. I wanted to raise awareness on the impact presentability has on the black community and to question why we have to conform to unrealistic expectations of us. I distorted my face to link to the distorted view of perfection and presentability."
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"I wanted to explore the idea of presentability and being the image society wants to represent. After looking at fashion photography books from different time periods, I had noticed a common theme of presentable white women being the subject of those images. After research, I realised that art has been used as a way of communicating power. The images represent the perfect woman. I responded to this through giving myself, as a black woman, the same level of power that the presentable white woman is given in the images through styling and posing. I wanted to raise awareness on the impact presentability has on the black community and to question why we have to conform to unrealistic expectations of us. I distorted my face to link to the distorted view of perfection and presentability."
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CREATIVE PRACTICE
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