| Abstract |
The monsters in my work are not monsters by a traditional understanding, but rather utilize monstrosity as a tool of disruption to interrogate the male gaze. This body of work surveys feminine construction, exploitation, and the male gaze through divisive media. Intentionally sourcing imagery from two polarizing types of media - the horror genre and pornography - I am recontextualizing familiar imagery to critique the social attitudes that have formed them. In this way, the monstrosity of these images is rooted in the ways that they break expectation. These familiar presentations of women have been distorted to glitch the male gaze, and highlight the identities that have been projected on them or utilizing erasure and concealment to remove the viewer's gratification. |
