Widening the Cycle:

A Menstrual Cycle & Reproductive Justice Art Show

Isabelle Lutz

Red titled works will be at Boston show

Vaginal Stressless is a proposal aiming to image intimacy of bodies as a key value of modernity; a body which now is acting as a factor of differentiation, as a boundary mark between oneself and the other. Here, the phallus as a focus becomes an entity in its own, attribute and object, specificity and generality while staying still frozen in an interior space perspectiveless, reflecting a values reversal​​, an  instrumentalisation of the masculine gender  to enhance the feminine gender. The problem of contemporary alienation arose as being the result of a movement where individuals are evolving in an awkward position between different normative constraints and cultural pressures. Thus, the object-specimen exists ultimately only through a formatting that is depriving it of  a rather sizeable portion of its substance while the female character, staged in the video, is plagued by paranoid ideation and undergoes her sexual image while assuming it; that is  to say without trying to flee the situation.

 

Isabelle Lutz is a swiss artist born in Geneva and living in London after having spent a few years in Berlin. In 2001, she graduated with a Masters in Psychology and since 2005, playing with the codes of pop culture, which has replaced absolutist dreams with a deep relativism, she reveals through her artistic practice, her growing concern about the evolution of our post-modern world and more specifically the ambivalence to emerge, where alienation and emancipation are no more readily recognizable. She attempts however to challenge our perception of daily life by proposing questions on a series of commonly held notions. www.isabellelutz.com

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