- Belle Nouveau is a surreal exploration of post-humanism and the power that technology holds over women. The focus is on transformation and self-image, exploring the perverse desires that are derived from obsessing over advancements in the constantly changing ideal beauty. Submission to fascination turns into internal disgust with the stagnant mediated female image.—Cassandra Sechler
- The nature of femininity, identity, consciousness, technological infrastructure, and my place within them are the main focus of my work as a visual artist. Belle Nouveau, my most recent work, uses the film medium to convey the transformation of three women. Questions about a post-gender world and the concept of defined beauty are framed within the context of how technology dictates this through the media. This relationship with the media is investigated by examining the emotional effects that television and advertising has already had on women. I invite the viewer to contemplate their own relationship with technology as a formal meditation while also implying complicity in its destruction and ultimate responsibility for the formation of the mediated gender based identity.
Cassandra Sechler 2010
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