Lucy and Bart

These artists from Australia and The Netherlands collaborated on a project to 'Showcase a future where the search for beauty is altered with plastic surgery.'
There deformed and ridiculous human shapes poke fun at the extremes people will go to to be seen as 'beautiful' There is a fine line between beauty and ugliness. Too much of a good thing pushing and tipping the human form into a distortion and ridicule of nature.
This first image uses textiles to create exaggerated, colourful 'growths' on the face just as Cockburn created in the last post.

 Julie Cockburn

 LucyandBart

 The female form above seems to have been transformed into a kind if half woman half insect super hero. But the apparent strength and power as represented by the pose and the muscular shapes are deflated by the obvious use of tights to hold all the added lumps on! This adds a sense of the absurd.

The image above have been created by building soft sensuous forms almost like intestines or human organs that have been loaded and entwined round the  the body in deformed lumps and oozing soft layers like fat rolls. He looks like a baby encased in a giant insect lava. The clash of human/insect forms and the presentation of Humour and disgust at the same time are similar to what I am aiming to convey in my practice too. 

This work is truly at the forefront as the artists are considering  contemporary themes-of personal identity and body politics, but are representing them in a completely new way.

LucyandBart.co.uk 

www.flowersgallery.com/artists/julie-cockburn