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She Said No

Buttuettes highlights the relationship of the male gaze with an idealized part of the woman’s body: the butt. The idealization and portrait of the ideal body crafted by the ancient Greeks with a twist of sexism is the inspiration for these altered photographs. 

The butt pictures were extracted from before and after photos of women who went through the BBL (Brazilian Butt Lift) procedure – the ones used are the before shots. 

How did a simple part of a body become such a symbol for sensuality, desire and status? 

Buttuettes are the real or original ones, but with a touch of color emphasizing the beauty in every women’s body.

Buttuetes (series of 10)

This work it meant to make you reflect about rape, the rape culture and how this affects the story and psyche of women throughout history.

Take our power, we make flowers

Instinctive is a series of drawings that portraits, through the use of violent animals how aggressiveness and abuse, misplaced as instinct or natural, affect women.

Abuse is an ambiguous topic. Most often it is not a random stranger in the middle of a dark street, but yet someone you know, someone you care for. Is this relationship with the aggressor, previous to the violence itself that makes the definition of the event for the victim not black and white, but yet grey. 

It is these feelings, the bond or connection and maybe a previous desire for that person that makes the violent event not as clear as it can be. 

The grey in the situation is perhaps the arousal that comes with the memory of a painful event, that in different circumstances would be a happy one.


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Caterina Di Pasquale