Nicole Awai

…So Bloody Civilized

Local Ephemera is the world of in-between. It is a liminal terrain governed by the sensual and the intuitive where concepts, ideas, inferences and innuendoes (ecological, economical, political and art /historical) take on physical form and are constantly in flux. Things seem to be constantly shifting – displacing, evolving – replacing, oozing – relocating…

Her images of Barbie challenge European ideals of beauty and commercialism. She presents Barbie as the "ignorant perpetrator", an "allegorical symbol of European/Euro-American, hegemonic influence" and "imposition."

Closed Studio