Photographing the body with uneasy humour
Liu Sasiraja’s photographing the body with uneasy humour correlates to ideas of my own work, which focuses on contrasting gazes and performance, by looking and creating an uneasy viewing experience. She explains her work as unforgiving to the eye, as it is unlike a mirror, which is how we see ourselves daily. I see her work as being a performance to the viewer, as the work is clearly actively staged, makes you question as to why her body language, facial expression is always so dull and why the particular objects have been used to be photographed. Her way of documenting the body as an object to help support items that she is placing on herself interferes with ideas of the female gaze. Using herself as an object glorifies the ideas presented in the male gaze, but by contradicting that with using herself as the object, takes power over the response to both the female and male gazes. Her work informs mine by contradicting the norms of a woman's body and broadcasting that in front of the viewer and camera.
Image Credit to Liu Sasiraja