ABOUT
Inês Mourato (1st July 1998, Lisbon, Portugal)
-Painter
-Drawing
-Freelance Artist
-Feminist
-Hobbies: Arts and Crafts, Photography, Print and work with mixed media
-Painter
-Drawing
-Freelance Artist
-Feminist
-Hobbies: Arts and Crafts, Photography, Print and work with mixed media
ARTIST STATEMENT
It is impressive how, in a fashion magazine, in hundred and eighty six pages, only one displays an oversized model. Showing that it is acceptable to be fat in the context of hundreds of skinny interchangeable models. In my practice, alongside my research, I’m interested in showing a reflection of today’s women and how female brains were influenced by society and history throughout the years.
My work criticizes media, society, art, history, me and you. I want to shock you. I want to show you how it feels like to be a women. Mainly focused on the oppression women feel to belong into a certain stereotype or idealization, my work resulted in a series of paintings that denounce the way we’ve been “making” the beautiful, that might not be beautiful the standardized ideal of the female figure. Exploring Renaissance female nudes, it is significant the projected influence on to current fashion magazines. The resemblances are noticeable in the way that media idealizes women and ascend them to a symbolism of beauty and innocence but, in contradiction, as sexualized images for the viewer. This issue conducted, in consequence, to women “inferior” to men and submissive to what society has to say about them. In order to belong in this society and be accepted, women also participated in the development of these ideas. Coming back to the Baroque Period, when women would learn “how to behave like a lady” and when the regeneration of a staging life was created anew. The physical appearance was the mains focus, and so it is now. Exaggerating the female figure with makeup, plastic surgeries, implants, women became to want to achieve the “doll shape”. My paintings are therefore an anger female vision towards these issues mentioned before. Following movements such as “Me too” and “Cuns Art” and artists such as Caroline Coons, Dawn Mellor, Jenny Saville and Tracey Emin, my practice resulted mainly in large-scale canvas of portraits and sometimes female figure, with expressive traces and intensive red lines and words. Manifesting, therefore, the intensity felt inside of a woman’s brain and the anger towards the idealization of the female image. Using charcoal, acrylic and spray paint, my paintings transform themselves throughout layers beginning with the “ideal women”, and concluding partially destroyed with red lines afterwords that embody the frustration and the release of the displeasure towards society. I hope my work made you think just as much as it makes me think. |
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Charcoal, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 170 x 140 cm |