Women That Turn

Women as objects are tied down in a set of fantasies about how a woman should present herself.

A woman stands with her back turned towards me. When I leave, she turns around. Or is the woman on the screen turned around by me? Seen…and the back stares back at you…accentuating it with a twitch. Too close…and you get caught.

A precise study in the shift between twitches and movement; an illustration of women that sense the glance and reacts with small movements of discomfort. No act of symbolic meaning just instantly facing you.

First image:
A sequence from ‘Women That Turn’ showing one of the female caracters as she (1) awaits the viewer with her back turned (2) reacts with even more distancing when the viewer comes too close and (3) reacts to the viewer moving away from the screen by turning around while the camera performs a small dolly movement backwards.

Second image:
Women that turn as a part of a video triptych at the gallery space of “Verket”, Avesta (Sweden).