Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Beauty and the Doughnuts, 2010

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BEAUTY AND THE DOUGHNUTS
In Hovnanian’s Beauty and the Doughnuts, a woman stands before a cabinet of pastries. Though the pastries are behind closed doors and the woman is in open space, she is the prisoner, locked within her longing for societally-forbidden foods, surrounded by public judgement and expectation. From her tiara and bouquet, she is recognizable as a beauty queen even when viewed from behind. In this work, the artist explores the vulnerability of the beauty queen, a metaphor for the American obsession with physical beauty.

Beauty and the Doughnuts, 2010
Photograph in archival ink on rag paper
52.0 x 41.5 in

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