Women are raised to be beautiful, or to try to be. But at some point the idealized may distort into the grotesque, both inside and/or out.

Beauty And Strength

Selfies

Title’s long-term obsession with women's issues and contemporary social dynamics led her to mine the Barbie doll as metaphor in her recent series of paintings and photographs. For "DROWN the DOLLS," Title submerged the Barbie doll (and herself) in a backyard pool and then aimed her camera upwards towards the under-side of the pool's surface.

The resulting images of both doll and its distorted reflection pit what is “true” vs. what is "false." The reflections, the Barbie doll, and the paint all present a reality that is simultaneously distorted and representational. This overlap of tensions and contrasts allow the visceral and the intellectual to reinforce and reflect one another in continuing, reverberating dialogue.


Daena Title