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Olga Migliaressi-Phoca creates narratives that reflect popular culture of today and echo current viewpoints and attitudes of western society. In her text-based works, she turns iconic logos and familiar signs of everyday vocabulary into thought-provoking plays of words and reflections of gender, identity, visual representation, and the interplay between subject and object. Recognizable, familiar signs that have become a mundane part of everyday vocabulary become transformed into a novel narrative.
The presented works stem from the ongoing series “The Future Is Vague”. Each work presents a cover beauty issue of the fictitious Vague magazine in a specific country. The works touch upon matters of gender identity and (in)equality and examine the position of women in today’s society by exploring the different stereotypes of female beauty standards around the world, offering a commentary on society’s expectations of women and the burdening, often unrealistic, and barely achievable cliches…
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Olga Migliaressi-Phoca creates narratives that reflect popular culture of today and echo current viewpoints and attitudes of western society. In her text-based works, she turns iconic logos and familiar signs of everyday vocabulary into thought-provoking plays of words and reflections of gender, identity, visual representation, and the interplay between subject and object. Recognizable, familiar signs that have become a mundane part of everyday vocabulary become transformed into a novel narrative.
The presented works stem from the ongoing series “The Future Is Vague”. Each work presents a cover beauty issue of the fictitious Vague magazine in a specific country. The works touch upon matters of gender identity and (in)equality and examine the position of women in today’s society by exploring the different stereotypes of female beauty standards around the world, offering a commentary on society’s expectations of women and the burdening, often unrealistic, and barely achievable cliches…
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