feminine paradox
does woman exist ? or is she a projections of phantasms, an extrapolation of mind ? woman, wouldn't it be women ? With all the differences this plural involve ? all different, all wearing the weight of this word in their singular, own particular way.
the woman, this icon of magazines do not exist, but women yes. Tired to submit them self to a unique idea of femininity, to an utopia of how it should be, bow to a phantasm that never accomplish to incarnate.
femininity is not a fix point, it is written in stones, it is moving, takes different forms of expressions, nature. it can be seen at the crossroad of a conversation, in a laugh, in a messy room…
there's no right way, no normal way, to be a woman, to be feminine. we define the woman we are, we define what is feminine or is not.
la femme. existe-t-elle ou est-elle une projection de fantasmes, une extrapolation de l'esprit ? la femme, ne serait-ce pas les femmes ? avec toutes les différences que ce pluriel implique ? toutes différentes, toutes portant le poids de ce mot d’une manière singulière et particulière.
la femme, cette icône des magazines n'existe pas, mais les femmes oui. fatiguée de se soumettre à une utopie, à une idée, fatiguée de s'incliner devant un fantasme de la féminité qui n’est jamais parvenu à s'incarner.
la féminité n’est pas quelque chose de fixe, d’immuable, elle est mouvante, prend différente forme d’expressions, de nature. elle se croise au détour d’une conversation, d’un rire, d’une chambre mal rangée…
il n'y a pas de bonne manière, de manière normale, d'être une femme, d'être féminine . nous définissons la femme que nous sommes, nous définissons ce qui est féminin ou non.
a special thanks to all of the women who appears in this project. you have unlighted my life by your manners, sometime foolish some other time very elegant. by your laughs, your jokes, your mimics. the way you put your make up, how you didn't, how you were rolling your cigarets, smoking it, how you were walking in the streets, fearless, or joking about your fears. all these ways you have to be the women you are.
to all of you; to these who are still here and those who have left.
I am grateful to all of you.