Rouge
Make-up is a visual alteration of what we see. Glossy, satin, matte. These terms describe different surfaces. Beneath this lies a practice: one that is creative, shaped by self-realisation, expectations, formulas and an entire industry.
This work contains a photographic engagement with what has long been internalised. It examines different modes of representation in the context of magazines.
Through dialogue with archival material, it becomes visible how image worlds of make-up emerge and asks what we see in them.
