Dose #31 – Beauty as Commodity
Today, a sculptor makes a statement about beauty using a basic commodity very much associated with beauty…
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Dose #31: Beauty as Commodity by Aishwarya Bhattacharjee
Spotted at: NAFA Booth, Art Stage Singapore 2015
The Idea: using soap as a sculpture medium; my best guess is Aishwarya first sculpted in clay and then made a mould and then poured soap mixture to the mould to make these body parts
Beauty as Commodity by Aishwarya Bhattacharjee
Soap Sculptures
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
A Little about “Beauty as Commodity” in the words of artist Aishwarya Bhattacharjee:
Senior Sculpture Major at NAFA Singapore
Aishwarya Bhattacharjee
Photo from her FB album
“In the current century, beauty is treated as a commodity. My work represents the objectification of beauty and the price the media places on it, at the cost of dehumanization. Soap is a basic commodity of beauty and is able to mirror its life – the gradual deterioration, disfigurement, developing wrinkles and at the end- its death.”
– Aishwarya Bhattacharjee
Her Bio and other works on NAFA
See more of Aishwarya’s work on behance
So do… exercise caution in what you allow media to influence in your perception of beauty, the world and what is truly important.
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