the beauty room

The beauty room: a broken reality of nature and saints. Using simple elements of the culturally available lexicon of beauty, such as rose branches with needles (taken from the garden) and mirrors, the atmosphere of the beauty room was created. In addition to the rose branches, small vegetable parts were fixed on the wall with small metal cubes, in an apparent distortion of their form – a painful process of reconstruction, reminiscent of beautifying techniques enforced by the cosmetical gaze. The floor plane of the room was “cut” and “expanded” with the help of mirrors and flour which created the effect of “stepping out” of the frame, referring to the photographs of Francesca Woodman. 

The beauty room: a broken reality of nature and saints. Using simple elements of the culturally available lexicon of beauty, such as rose branches with needles (taken from the garden) and mirrors, the atmosphere of the beauty room was created. In addition to the rose branches, small vegetable parts were fixed on the wall with small metal cubes, in an apparent distortion of their form – a painful process of reconstruction, reminiscent of beautifying techniques enforced by the cosmetical gaze. The floor plane of the room was “cut” and “expanded” with the help of mirrors and flour which created the effect of “stepping out” of the frame referring to the photographs of Francesca Woodman. 

©Keiko Uenishi