Biennale Images Vevey
2012
The Ideal Woman
The Ideal Woman
Kourtney Roy used her self-portraits to question how women are represented in photography. In The Ideal Woman series, she plays with female stereotypes fantasized by the cultural industry of the 1950s and 1960s: cheerleader, stewardess or beauty queen. These ideal figures and their empty gaze are all shot in front of the same photographic background, as if they were trapped in these tradi-tional models of femininity. Displayed in the public space, the work offered a counterpoint to the use of the female figure in today’s advertising.
