Not Only Hands But Shoulders: Keti Kapanadze (German Edition)
Books / Hardcover
Art & Performing Arts › Photography
ISBN: 3933257808 / Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, April 2004
A colorful debate on contemporary images, a female view of values in the pictorial world.
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The Georgian video and photo artist discusses society&;s ideals and clichés by transforming pictures of beauties in glossy magazines. Her collage-like images confront the perfect world of fashion models with Barbie dolls and sweet teddy bears which involuntarily evoke childhood memories. By adding these seemingly harmless toys, Kapanadze creates a particular ambiguity and contrast between the idealized world of the grown-ups and the not-so-innocent children&;s accessories on the other hand.
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