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Lucia Madriz
Costa Rica

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Tell Me When to Smile
Lucia Madriz
Costa Rica 2002
video still
1 min 30 sec
courtesy of the artist and LA Freewaves
A self-portrait in a ridiculous, photographic, teenager-like pose that satirizes the usual icons associated with the canons of feminine beauty (according to make-up, creams and smiling faces.) Women must be beautiful in almost every personal and social activity and in the chauvinis- tic context of our stereotyped, sexist societies.




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