FEMALE DIVERSITY
we’re not here to make you feel comfortable
Why is female beauty so restrictedly represented in the omnipresent images?
Why are characteristics that the vast majority of women display considered flaws?
The one-sided representation of women is accepted and women try to adapt to the ideal instead of contradicting it.
We see female stereotypes in the media but what a female body really looks like is concealed.
Does the unknown or the unseen make us feel uncomfortable?
My work on FEMALE DIVERSITY shows the diverse female body. I stage natural body forms as artistic lines in the picture, with lines, wrinkles, curves and the smallest details in the skin. The beauty and individuality presented in this way should help to question our conditioned view.
FEMALE DIVERSITY
a portfolio of diverse body images
FEMALE DIVERSITY
a portfolio of portraits
FEMALE DIVERSITY
we’re not here to make you feel comfortableA short film by Boris Seewald & Sung-Hee Seewald
Synopsis
(english)
The prevailing portrayals of the female body in media and arts does not reflect the vast majority of women. There is a predefined ideal in body shape, size, and age.
The short film FEMALE DIVERSITY portrays within a small selection of women, typical characteristics which every woman knows and which the vast majority of female bodies have, but which are retouched, concealed or simply not displayed at all in media.
Lines, shapes, and features build the key elements of compositions of black-and-white imagery yielding an uncommon staging of female totality.
(deutsch)
Die vorwiegend einseitige Darstellung des weiblichen Körpers in Medien und auch Kunst repräsentiert die Mehrheit der Frauen nicht.
Es herrscht ein festgelegtes Idealbild in Körperform, Größe und Alter.
Der Film FEMALE DIVERSITY porträtiert anhand einer kleinen Selektion von Frauen typische Merkmale, die jede Frau kennt und die große Mehrheit der Frauen aufweist, jedoch in den Medien retuschiert, kaschiert oder erst gar nicht gezeigt werden.
Linien, Formen und Körpermerkmale als zentrale Elemente der schwarz-weißen Bildkompositionen ergeben eine unübliche Inszenierung weiblicher Gesamtheit.
Sung-Hee Seewald & Boris Seewald
Artist’s statement
(english)
Why is female beauty so restrictedly represented in the omnipresent images? Why are characteristics that the vast majority of women display considered flaws? The one-sided representation of women is accepted and women try to adapt to the ideal instead of contradicting it.
We see female stereotypes in the media but what a female body really looks like is concealed. Does individuality and the unknown make us feel uncomfortable?
The Film FEMALE DIVERSITY shows the diverse female body. We stage natural body forms as artistic lines in the picture, with lines, wrinkles, curves and the smallest details in the skin. The beauty and individuality presented in this way should help to question our conditioned view.
(deutsch)
Warum wird weibliche Schönheit in den allgegenwärtigen Bildern so eingeschränkt repräsentiert? Warum gelten Merkmale, die die große Mehrheit der Frauen aufweisen, als Fehler?
Die einseitige Darstellung der Frau wird akzeptiert und Frauen versuchen, sich dem Idealbild anzupassen anstatt diesem zu widersprechen. Wir sehen weibliche Stereotypen in den Medien aber wie der weibliche Körper wirklich aussieht, wird kaschiert.
Bereitet uns Individualität und das Fremde Unbehagen?
Der Film FEMALE DIVERSITY zeigt die Vielfalt des weiblichen Körpers. Natürliche Körperformen werden als kunstvolle Linien im Bild inszeniert, samt Falten, Rundungen und kleinster Details in der Haut. Die so präsentierte Schönheit und Individualität soll helfen, unseren konditionierten Blick in Frage zu stellen.
We want to thank all the creative people involved in this short film!
Thanks to Ralf Hildenbeutel for creating the music, it is such a piece of art. Miwha Seewald is the stunning voice, thank you so much for your creative input and helping us with the right words. The muses, the beautiful females Camille Beunèche, Susann Bischof, Joyce Edunjobi, Ute, Olivia Klug, Daniela Mauer, Greta Streitberger and Ariane Mühlmann: you are so stunning! Thank you so much for trusting us, thanks for being in front of our camera.
Thank you Volker Wendisch for the sound. Thank you Philip Moore for your creativity for the right words. Nils Jahnke for the recording studio and Willi von Öhsen from Broncolor, Sung-Hee’s all time supporter for the best light equipment ever! A very special thanks goes to husband Jan Eichner, you know what you’ve done.I, Sung-Hee, want to thank my beloved brother Boris for this collaboration. It’s been an honor.
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
The Curvy Magazine
Article at The Curious Brain (english)
Article at QUITE SOMETHING magazine
Article at Langweildich.net (german)
Interview at EDITION F (german)
Westart WDR
Article at Monda Magazine (german)