SINGULART is honored to have been able to collaborate with Alexandra Link and the German ELLE to celebrate the international Women's day. Both the gallery and the magazine have shown their support and empowerment for women. ELLE.de even has it's own channel called "Female Empowerment" where Alexandra and her colleagues write about equal rights and other topics on modern feminism, and of course about "Perfectly Imperfect". We had the pleasure to interview Alexandra Link on her passions, female empowerment and why she wanted to be part of this project. You can find the article here.
Today we are facing quite a two-pronged ideal of Beauty. On the one hand we have the picture perfect posts of influencers on social media like Instagram. On the other hand we see more and more diverse ideals of beauty embracing age, body images and ethnical backgrounds. And that is what I love about our time right now. Everything is changing, we are changing and we are changing our perception of a woman. Of course there is still a lot to do in equal rights but in our times there is so much more freedom for women (especially in western parts of the world) if you compare it with the 60ies for example. And I think it is our duty to be brave to take this freedom and empower other women to do so as well and to express ourselves.
These 30 artworks of women from all over the world are a perfect example for this. In each of them we we see different perspectives on this topic showing that ageing, body figures and “imperfections” are just beautiful. It just about how you look at it.
From Egypt to South Korea – all over the world woman dealing with almost the same issues. The female artist in this collection are showing this is a very touching way.
An wonderful example for this is the work of Marie Saksik. “Round people are also beautiful”, says the French artist who works with sculptures that show women in a extraordinary sensitive and sensual way. Self-love is the main topic of Spanish artist Fares Micue who photographs herself with beautiful flower bouquets trying to give back women their confidence even though women sometimes struggle with it through socialization. Joyce Polance an American painter with roots from India is embracing with her works the sexuality and bodies of women. What I love about her: She is empowering us to take back the ownership of both – our femininity and our power. In the same direction works Javiera Estrada from Mexico. She shows with her amazing black and white photographs both the universal canons of beauty and also confronts it at the same time.
My work is highly feminine and I use my body to evoke and represent the strong fragility that woman poses, trying to infuse confidence and self-love since it is something that we as women, can have struggles with because of the nature of our growth and development as well as for our role in society
In our society older ladies almost become invisible in a world where everybody needs to look young and attractive, this is why I feel it is important to show the beauty of these women . It became more and more important to me to focus on this because people reacted so strongly to my paintings. It became my mission to tell the story of the aging body and I hope it can bring discussion about the way we are almost brainwashed around this subject, thinking the body of an older lady is something to hide.
