“VANITY KILLS” 2018
WORK 2:
“UNTITLED”: (VANITY KILLS)
DIGITAL FILM SHOT ON I-PHONE
DURATION: 02:30 LOOPED
Glamour bewitches, it casts a spell, it promises social transformation and individual elevation but is itself a tool of social distance and not social integration. Glamour allows the exploited to become the exploiter and is the promise of individual class mobility and not class critique. Like the specimen butterfly trapped within the glass exhibition case, the object of desire to the fetishism of the taxonomist and collector, both exploiter and exploited are caught within the ricochet of desiring reflections and projections.