Artist’s Statement

This artwork explores the relationship between the media, the female body, and the cultural narratives projected onto women. The television head, replacing a traditional bust, symbolizes the way women are often reduced to images on screens, mediated by technology and subjected to distorted ideals. The statue of Venus de Milo, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, a figure who has symbolized idealized femininity for centuries. Venus’s broken arms reflect the loss of agency that women have experienced throughout history, echoing how, even today, social media often reduces women to passive, ornamental objects. In this work, Venus becomes a metaphor for the ways women’s bodies and identities are objectified, disempowered, and commodified in the digital age. The television represents the modern mechanisms that perpetuate these age-old ideals, showing how the digital world continues to impose rigid standards of beauty and femininity, much like the classical era. The figure is reduced to an icon on a screen - her individuality erased, her body broken down into parts for visual consumption. My goal is to critique this ongoing commodification of women and urge a reconsideration of how we can reclaim a narrative of empowerment in a world dominated by social media.