Emilie Hallard - The Incorruptible Bodies

Emilie Hallard
The Incorruptible Bodies

Published by Maria Inc., 2019
Book size 23 x 29.5 cm
Pages 120 pages
Soft cover
French language
Texts by Judith Butler, Antonio Centeno, Virginie Despentes, Jean Kilbourne, Daria Marx, Erin McKean, Elvira Swartch Lorenzo, Nicole Seck and Julie Rambal.

The 21st century still carries the same beauty injunctions of the last century, those of this young, white, thin, ethereal, and heterosexual woman. Beauty, the primary commercial asset of women, the passport to a happy marriage, professional success, and social recognition. The bombardment of endlessly photoshopped images to which we are exposed alienates women and men today through a constant search for a claustrophobic ideal of beauty, leading only to frustration and self-hatred. A blinded population, starved by its diets, which becomes terribly manipulable and obedient.

Refusing the norm means choosing, from both vulnerability and enthusiasm, to be incorruptible, true to oneself, honest, punk in the face of a capitalist system that engenders monstrous children of uniformity and consumerism, all from the same postcolonial patriarchal mold.

For the artist, having refused the norm, cherished and desired bodies of all ages, sizes, genders and colors, is to deconstruct beauty standards, to begin a quest for honesty, empowerment, acceptance and self-confidence, to collect their words and to cast a tender eye on his peers.

These incorruptible bodies are a celebration of diversity, improbability, ambiguity, androgyny and non-binarity.

Incorruptible Bodies is a feminist, queer, and anti-racist declaration of love.