In a work entitled “And The Beast”, Egyptian artist Ghada Amer shows us a juxtaposition of Disney’s Belle –from “the Beauty and the Beast”- overlaid with subtly drawn erotic female figures. Amer took these female figures from porn magazines and presents them as another version of female stereotypes – in strong contrast with the virginal Disney princesses.
In combining pornographic images with female fairy-tale creatures, Ghada Amer asks us how innocent these fairy-tale images are to begin with. The entire canvas is dominated by the thick black outline of a woman receiving oral sex.
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| Ghada Amer: And the Beast |
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