The essay examines the case of Juno Calypso, a young British photographer who specializes in self-portrait series. The highly homogeneous shots recreate sugary, baroque vintage imagery inhabited by her alter ego Joyce, a woman trapped in a laborious process of feminization and refinement. In the different series analyzed, domestic spaces, particularly bedrooms and bathrooms, chosen and used with extreme care, are played a central role. Through Calypso's lens, each room, from the grandmother's house to the Love Hotel's bridal suite to the Avon cosmetics patron's bunker, reveals its contrived nature as a hypertrophic set that accommodates the rigid enactment of selves performed by the woman. In her work, she alludes to the virtual, posturing intimacy of bedroom selfie culture.

Ipercostruzione di Sé e intimità virale nelle opere di Juno Calypso

Deborah Toschi
2023-01-01

Abstract

The essay examines the case of Juno Calypso, a young British photographer who specializes in self-portrait series. The highly homogeneous shots recreate sugary, baroque vintage imagery inhabited by her alter ego Joyce, a woman trapped in a laborious process of feminization and refinement. In the different series analyzed, domestic spaces, particularly bedrooms and bathrooms, chosen and used with extreme care, are played a central role. Through Calypso's lens, each room, from the grandmother's house to the Love Hotel's bridal suite to the Avon cosmetics patron's bunker, reveals its contrived nature as a hypertrophic set that accommodates the rigid enactment of selves performed by the woman. In her work, she alludes to the virtual, posturing intimacy of bedroom selfie culture.
2023
2023
http://www.arabeschi.it/ipercostruzionedi-sc-e-intimit--virale-nelle-opere-di-juno-calypso/
self-representation; photography; selfie culture; performance; Juno Calypso
Toschi, Deborah
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