Depicting transitional moments of life, from
young girlhood to middle age, Matar's works address personal and collective identity through photographs mining female adolescence and womanhood.
Not exact matches
The tender and gorgeously illustrated manhwa trilogy (begun in The Color of Earth and The Color of Water, both 2009) honoring the artist's mother as she travels from childhood through
girlhood to her status as a newlywed
young woman comes to a successful close in this volume.
In her words she is: «examining selfie culture in teenage
girlhood and the power for
young women to create, curate, and distribute their own imagery.»
With this body of work, Collins» art practice continues to make space for the
young female experience by embracing the historically marginalized subject matter of the complex reality of
girlhood.
Her work revolves around notions of femininity; she carefully investigates the tropes of
girlhood and middlebrow aesthetics that dominate western culture, be it
young - girl Instagram profiles, or as in her latest solo show, Destruction of Experience at London's Evelyn Yard, the visual templates of self - help guides and corporate identity.