ARTIST’S STATEMENT objectify is a series of photographic diptychs which uses the female body paired with objects to satirize advertised ideas about women. At first glance, these images seem curiously combined as the viewer seeks a connection. The poses of the female body are familiar from advertising, but it is the combination of the pose with object that changes the meaning of both and creates a familiar, humorous, and simultaneously disturbing connection. In addition to the visual comparison of imagery, a word, placed within a divisional black line, complicates the composition’s inferred meaning. Ideas of restraints, constraints and emancipation lurk behind the humor evoked from objectify.
objectify
gratify
electrify
exemplify
signify
mollify
terrify
personify
modify
quantify
verify
glorify
satisfy
fortify
pacify
magnify
sanctify
rectify
simplify
justify
 
objectify
 
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jana c perez