from the series Perceptual Beauty 2011
Directed by: Michelle Marie Murphy
Featuring: Maria Miranda
Duration: 18:30
DVD signed in a limited edition of 10.

Inspired by performance art and third-wave feminism Murphy’s video Second Skin no.2, playfully uses beauty tools as a culturally loaded art supply rather than the intended use of the material (to conceal or accentuate our face). The resulting video blends perceptual space, and private space…
while Miranda’s actions/gestures reveal the entrapment of beauty.
Murphy suggests that beauty is a constructed and consumable obsession.

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