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2023 and our bodies are still political.
The twenty-first century keeps dragging along the same beauty standards of the last century: those of the young, white, slim, ethereal and heterosexual woman. Beauty, the first commercial asset of women, a passport for a happy marriage, professional success and social acknowledgement. Nowadays, we are exposed to an endless bombing of photoshopped images that alienates women and men with a constant search for an unattainable ideal of beauty, which only leads to frustration and self-hatred. A blind population, starved by their diets, becoming terribly manipulative and obedient.
To reject the norm is to choose, from both vulnerability and enthusiasm, to be incorruptible, true to oneself, honest, punk in the face of a capitalist system that generates monstrous children of uniformity and consumerism, all from the same postcolonial patriarchal mould.
To have rejected the norm, to have loved and desired bodies of all ages, sizes, genders and colours, has meant deconstructing the standards of beauty, beginning a quest for honesty, empowerment, acceptance and self-confidence, collecting the words of my peers and looking at them with tenderness.
Incorruptible bodies are a celebration of diversity, improbability, ambiguity, the androgynous, and the non-binary.
Les corps incorruptibles is a feminist, queer and anti-racist declaration of love.
Émilie Hallard
Emilie Hallard, born in 1979 in France, lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Her work initially took the form of a diary, addressing themes such as nightlife and relationships, before evolving into artivism. Her interests now focus on portraiture, anti-racist transfeminism, gender studies and bodily representations.
Over the years, Emilie has been involved in renowned photography festivals and institutions such as Rencontres d'Arles and Galerie Michèle Chomette in Paris, and has worked with the photographer Antoine d'Agata (France).
Emilie's passion for photography can be seen in Maria Inc, a curatorial and editorial project that helps artists publish their first photobook and receive international visibility. She was co-founder of the Caja de Luz Visual Art and Photography Festival (Spain) and Le PhotobookFest (France). Over the past few years, Emelie has been a member of the jury of the Photography Festival of La Nuu (Spain), as well as a member of the panel in photography lectures in Belgium, France and Spain.
Emilie regularly collaborates with visual artist Lizette Nin throughout the year with “Ética y retrato” (Ethics and Portraiture), an interactive workshop on ethics in photography. With her work exhibited in Belgium, Spain, France, Myanmar, Sweden, Switzerland and Tunisia, Emilie's solo exhibition –with the support of the French Institute– will be touring Spain until September 2023. She participated in a collective exhibition at the MACBA (Modern Art Museum of Barcelona).
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