STITCHES AND BITCHES

An interactive performance and video installation.

A social commentary on the interconnectivity of pollution and plastic surgery in a post-feminist critique about what women will do to transform their image, to please others, men, family, society under the pretext of empowering themselves.

Dolly is caught behind the facade of a storefront. She awaits her plastic surgery patients with calculated gestures. The public and private spheres interlace by means of repeated physical actions and visual narratives so that the boundary between both disappear, and the horror of our contemporary notions of beauty are irreversibly exposed.

Produced by Fadi Mogabgab Contemporary Art Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon in December, 2009.

Concept, installation, video and performance: Nadine Sures

Video