2021

Being Aware

Photography

A body is interpreted before it understands itself. Labeled, evaluated, categorized. From the outside, often long before self-awareness sets in. Being Aware marks the point at which this reverses: when perception becomes resistance. The body ceases to be fixed and begins to sense itself.

Series: 26
Technique: Staged Photography, Special Effects Makeup
Press: Vangardist

Photography: Jolly Schwarz
Video: Franziska Landlinger
Makeup: Marietta Dang

  • Side of a naked persons torso
  • Feet of mother and child hanging
  • Legs of two different naked people
  • Belly and vulva of a naked person
  • Three generations of women, grandmother and mother holding (grand)daughter
  • The back of a naked person
  • Naked person from the side leaning against the arms
  • Neck of a naked person

© Jolly Schwarz

Prose

“Once a possession, now a commodity.
When am I allowed to be a woman?”