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Video Art Record
Must Be Beauty
Ma Qiusha
- Artist
- Ma Qiusha
- Title
- Must Be Beauty
- Year
- 2009
- Medium
- Single-channel video
- Format
- Video Art
- Collection
- DO2ON Garden Collection
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Ma Qiusha uses performance to examine the relation between the female body, beauty standards, and consumer culture. Surrounded by skin-care products, the artist does not apply them to the skin as an advertisement might suggest. Instead, she swallows them. Beauty becomes an invasion and a burden, exposing how commercial aesthetics can shape the body and self-recognition.
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