Graces in Selfie 2015

GRACES IN SELFIE is a performative video structured around breath as the animating force. The artist inflates plastic bodies—commercial inflatable figures—activating them through her own respiration. The gesture references creation through air, positioning breath as both a biological and a symbolic agent.

Before animation, the figures are dressed in black, white, and red lingerie. This addition emphasizes their constructed and stylized nature, highlighting the artificiality of desire as commodity and image. The work addresses the aesthetic fabrication of the contemporary body and its association with cosmetic modification and visual performance.

The inflatable bodies expand and collapse, their existence contingent upon air. Permanence is denied; material presence is temporary. The sequence underscores instability rather than durability.

At the center of the video, three of these figures are arranged as contemporary reinterpretations of the Three Graces. Their choreography oscillates between irony and reference, creating tension between classical iconography and synthetic materiality.

The soundtrack—songs from the 1930s—introduces temporal layering, situating the work within a dialogue between past and present cultural imaginaries.

GRACES IN SELFIE operates as an examination of animation, artifice, and ephemerality. The body is presented as constructed form, sustained momentarily, and ultimately released.