Girls on Film is part of a continuous exploration to understand hypocritical feminist concepts, namely the unrealistic body standards forced onto women and the objectification of women’s bodies in the media. Through a combination of photography and sculpture, Girls on Film plays with these concepts by bringing past societal beauty standards into the modern light. This multimedia piece is an illuminated papier mache mannequin displaying a bikini made out of nearly 70 vintage 35-millimeter transparencies from the 1970s to the late 1990s that were taken for male entertainment. By using analog slides, it displays how this narrative of the ideal woman has to be a voluptuous white woman is as dated as both the medium and the photos themselves. The scanned photos, as well as the sculpture, act as a powerful visual reminder of how women are objectified and expected to adhere to society's narrow constructs in order to be considered beautiful.
