From Venus with Love / Io Papadatos / Vidéo numérique HD / 2020 / 3’35
Through eroticism, science fiction, and a female perspective, I question the perception of what could be the male canon, inspired by the representations and sculptures of Ancient Greece, objectified under the voyeuristic gaze of a few passers-by. The use of the smartphone adds distance between the voyeur and the observed subject, it seems to remove any possibility of modesty, and the duality of the camera/smartphone captures is played out between images that are both smooth and raw. The music is a personal interpretation of “Venus as a Boy” (1993) by Björk. The musician plays with the name Venus, which tends to be used for the female beauty canon, inverting and applying it to the fantasies she has of her lover. In this video, Venus oscillates between this representation and the planet Venus, named after the Roman Goddess of love and beauty.
