The photographic installation of the "Belle o bois dormant" (/The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood/) is a kind of "tribute" to Mr Perrault who killed women´s freedom by creating through his tales an ideology alienating forever young girls to submissiveness . His work is at the roots of this tendency which subdue the freedom of women mind to a prefabricated feminine ideal. The young girls, tending toward this ideal, turned into clones, without notice the perversity of this wish of resemblance.
With these few introductory sentences that the young artist Viviane Riberaigua this work.
If there is indeed hard to think about the motivations (in?) Aware of Mr. Perrault, this work is perhaps one of the key contemporary visual of this reflection.
In a conceptual version nightmare, "one of the most famous heroines of the stories is called this time engaged in some old stereotypes ...
The installation consists of a photomontée image depicting a young woman lying on a bed in his room, a registration form of threat sarcastic on the door tells us: "Sleeping Beauty" Promise to come first prince! Say thank you to the fairy leaving. ". Stuck in the bust" leg "of the princess (as must be the name as well), springs from a giant peg, a long thread from the neck to distribute
of 21 dolls (Chucky trend) perched on a small suitcases integrating each music box.
That's what to consider in a much less romantic bluette our pretty, pretty princess waiting for a kiss to wake up to love. The leg is there to remind us: women do
end over the return to the oven, like forever captive chains of conformity male.
Like the Guerilla Girls, Barbara Kruger or Sherry Levine, Viviane Riberaigua, loudly and waved with a chilling sense of humor, the standard release, Girl Power - Text Patrice Loubon