Den feminina maskeraden : Attributen som skapar ytspänningar

• Main Author: Grimborg, Lotta
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Konstfack, Ädellab/Metallformgivning 2015
• Subjects: femininity; attribute; masquerade; jewellery; jewelry; craft; makeup; mask; Femininitet; attribut; maskerad; smycke; smyckekonst; konsthantverk; smink
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5192

We live in a world constructed by predeterminations, divided by gender. It’s a masquerade that we’re all taking part in, men by their gaze and women by embodying it. I’ve investigated spaces where feminine attributes are interconnected to a female body, and aspects that shape the misleading mask. In my research I discovered that there are three areas where a woman and female attributes are merged: In media where the stereotype image of a woman is confirmed in glossy magazines and in reality shows. In the bathroom, a room that represents the starting point of the masquerade. And last in typical feminine rooms, beauty salons, where make-up and nail polish is applied to female bodies. By researching spaces I discovered that bodies are shaped by the exclusion of the other sex and by gender specific norms. Out from my own bodily perception I have investigated the feminine surface in the borderland between corpus and jewellery. In my process I shifted the perspective by creating wearable pieces that illustrate the undressing of femininity and by dressing traditionally masculine corpus in feminine materials. All together the objects make up a burlesque staging of a feminine scenography. It’s first when an object loses its initial function that we can create new reference points. It’s when lipstick is casted in the shape of soap and when a high heel is separated from the shoe that they become disconnected from the female body.  === <p>The full thesis contains copyrighted material which has been removed in the published version.</p>