Marilyn Minter’s images inspired my thought process. Throughout
her exhibition, Pretty/Dirty, Minter adopts the aesthetics of high fashion to
an extreme by covering models in makeup and staging them in a sexual and
lustful way. Minter creates these images to parodise mainstream media. She
suggests that by looking at medias representation of identity inclines us to
crave the pleasure that glamour gives creates. Media further encourages people
with the idea that this is what they should aspire to look like. However, this
is contradicted as Minter explains that she over exaggerates the style of beauty
to a point which she considers herself ridiculous. She uses this in the context
of mainstream media and argues that media's conceptions of beauty is fake and
far from reality. Therefore, people are constantly trying to live up to an
impossible version of themselves in which they will never match the
contemporary notions of beauty that media advertises.
This work links to my final project as i want to create
images that expose the consequences of trying to be someone you're not. I will
show the concealment we crave on social media in order to hide the parts of our
identity we do not favour. We look up to role models and celebrities online
even though they are producing and promoting an ideal of beauty and masculinity
which is out of reach. Despite this, we continue to take part in media's online
world. We continue to alter and conceal ourselves to create this idolised
version of beauty we continue to long for.
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