honorable mention
Claudia Behrensen argentina
title
Las Ocultas
‘All revealing belongs within a harboring and a concealing’. Martin Heidegger
In my work "Las Ocultas" I meditate about the personal identity through the use of masks, both in their purpose of concealment but also of transformation.
By way of a performative gesture, I represent variations on hidden women, covered with elaborated clothing and organic masks that hide their truths, silence their emotions, and do not risk exposing their vulnerability, because of fear of being rejected.
The masks, on one hand, took me to think about the conditioning and the social prejudices that lead, by way of fear and insecurity, to a life of simulations and lies. Their costumes preserve the part these women play, hiding themselves while apparently pleasing the eyes of others.
However, the nature of these masks are that of the ephemeral, of what tends to disintegrate, and therefore as a counterpart brings the possibility of a transformation, which may perhaps allow them to free themselves and not live the lives according to the others` expectations.
In this project, I fulfilled the roles of photographer, producer, actress and director, all activities on which I have experience but come together in the making of this work.
“Las Ocultas” is an invitation to think, through visual impact, about our own masks and not to quit our dreams and liberty,
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entry description
LAS OCULTAS‘All revealing belongs within a harboring and a concealing’. Martin Heidegger
In my work "Las Ocultas" I meditate about the personal identity through the use of masks, both in their purpose of concealment but also of transformation.
By way of a performative gesture, I represent variations on hidden women, covered with elaborated clothing and organic masks that hide their truths, silence their emotions, and do not risk exposing their vulnerability, because of fear of being rejected.
The masks, on one hand, took me to think about the conditioning and the social prejudices that lead, by way of fear and insecurity, to a life of simulations and lies. Their costumes preserve the part these women play, hiding themselves while apparently pleasing the eyes of others.
However, the nature of these masks are that of the ephemeral, of what tends to disintegrate, and therefore as a counterpart brings the possibility of a transformation, which may perhaps allow them to free themselves and not live the lives according to the others` expectations.
In this project, I fulfilled the roles of photographer, producer, actress and director, all activities on which I have experience but come together in the making of this work.
“Las Ocultas” is an invitation to think, through visual impact, about our own masks and not to quit our dreams and liberty,
back to gallery