Week 4: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta

I was mostly affected by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta  because her discomfort with her body invoked by her peers reminds me of my own childhood. I was accused of being anoxeric since I was unusually skinny. I wore baggy clothes to detract attention from my body. I felt ugly and always wished I'd gain weight. I found it difficult to separate myself from their attention so I had body image issues until I realized that all woman have them. Thus, Tatiana's Luboviski-Acosta's confidence in her body image is inspiring and needs to be celebrated. Too often the body is criticized, shamed, and closed so I'm happy she uses her body as a site of art to make a societal critique. In this image she has paced her naked body in a plastic bag which represents the suffocation of standards of beauty and how I felt when I was a young girl that hated her body. She is stressing that societal expectations of beauty can make people feel like trash. She is not afraid to shock her audience by showing the body in ugly and unwanted ways because the body is more complicated than asethitic appeal. The body is movement and emotion as well. The way our bodies are covered or uncoverd indicate how we feel inside. I definitely respect Tatiana for her brave artistic actions.