Link to the book: https://www.amazon.ca/Girl-Culture-Lauren-Greenfield/dp/1452159289
-The project looks at “how the body has become the primary form of expression for girls and women, and the exhibitionist nature of modern femininity.”
-The work is inspired by both memory and current experience of the artist
-“… isolating moments and situations that speak to what girl culture is.”
-Looking at the toxicity of cultural beauty standards
I find Greenfield’s critique of the body as the main expression of femininity really crucial to the purpose of Girl Culture and overall something that I feel is important for me personally to remember as an artist and feminist. I think it is easy to fall back on representing the female body through only its physical characteristics without considering the key emotional and psychological aspects of girlhood and womanhood.
