{"uid":"3m0EMeiyzhK5Ss6l","type":"artist","tags":["photography","graphic","instalation","public-space","sculpture"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Ex Voto [Good-Looking-Good]","summary":"My artwork is a feminist critique of consumer culture. I propose a series of billboard posters, newspaper adverts, & social media adverts that use common advertising tropes to draw attention to the stereotypical representations presented in the commercial realm, rather than impel people to buy something. The adverts comprise photographs, montage, & text & will feature sculpted objects that function as portraits of different types of consumer. In the past, sculptural materials have included porcelain, rubbish, blancmange, & rotting meat. It is my intention to challenge advertising cultures through my work: operating in the commercial spaces that my work critiques is key to achieving a balance between art & activism. This public domain project will examine the particular mode of looking (at our own bodies and the bodies of others) that is produced by advertising rhetoric. The work will be specially developed for Bienalsur. This project draws on my PhD (Royal College of Art, London, 2017) that examined contemporary consumerism & the commodified construction of ideal gendered bodies. The aim of the body of work is to develop a psychoanalytically informed theory of the political economy of the body in neoliberal capitalist societies, paying particular attention to the new mechanisms of interaction afforded by social networking sites (Consuming the Body: Capitalism, Social Media and Commodification, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).","space":"Artworks will be developed for existing public domain spaces. I will research the types of advertising that are common in South America, such as billboards, ads on public transport & video screens. In addition, I will design adverts that will run in newspapers & on social media channels, via targeted adverts. The artworks I produce aim to be challenging, but not to cause offence, and ethical consideration of the audience will be central to the development of the work.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":10,"names":"Dawn","surname":"Woolley","email":"dawn.woolley@network.rca.ac.uk","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"538692137","address":"1 Monk Bridge Drive","city":"Leeds","nacionality":"English","country_id":"81","birthdate":"1980-03-10T00:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1980-03-10T00:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+44[0]7790015340","web":"www.dawnwoolley.com"}