The works featured in this exhibition consist out of 9 video-based
works, photographs and digital prints of video stills that explore the
impact of waist training on the female body.
By performing waist training and documenting it, as part of the creative
process, a comment is made on identity, but it is an identity that is
disguised and screened. As such the waist trained torso becomes an
iconic representation for femininity. By mimicking the elaborate and
painful processes which women use to compel the body to conform to a
shape they do not have at the beginning of the process, the
performer deploys sexuality in such a way that what is visible is
construed as absurd, extremely uncomfortable and shocking by the viewer.
