Miss Universe - Limited Edition of 25 Print

‘Miss Universe’, Aluminum Dye Sublimation, 120 X 80 cm (48 X 32 inches), 2019 The Me Too movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault, is virally spreading in the world since 2017. Its main objective is to empower women through empathy and strength in numbers, especially young and vulnerable women, by visibly demonstrating how many women have survived sexual assault and harassment. Miss Universe is a legendary annual international beauty pageant, bringing together beauty queens the world over. The idea behind the present artwork - ‘Miss Universe’ - is to humbly support the Me Too movement by further empowering women and by expressing a different interpretation of the Miss Universe notion, using a visual form of the ‘down-to-earth’ expression. The stiletto heel shoe is an object that on the one hand is easily identified with women, and on the other is in close contact with the earth on which we stand. Therefore, it has been chosen to represent the feminine power in this artwork. It is modeled and placed in the image in such a way that it is larger than the Earth and located above it. More than that, the stiletto heel shoe is the only object in the artwork which is in full focus, simply to represent and accentuate the message that time has come for women to rise and stand out in the center, whereas the rest of the world remains blurred and out of focus. A correction is made and women are recognized for their true value and power. My artworks are usually about uncanny compositions, featuring inconceivable, yet fantastic realities which are portrayed employing dazzling colors and razor-sharp details. These fantastic realities cannot happen in our real world but only within my mind and consequently in my computers, where they are conceived, designed, fashioned, textured, painted and finally photographed. In addition, I usually create my artworks by first producing a short footage around the painting's theme and then choosing one frame, which I later turn to be the final still artwork. The present painting is actually one frame that I have chosen among 250 frames that constitute the footage. It seems to me that the present artwork fairly represents my artistic practice.

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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