OBJECTIFY ME — Online Artsy Viewing Room

As women we are conditioned from an early age that what’s most important about us is the way we look and the way our body feels in someone else’s hands. We are nothing if we aren’t aesthetically pleasing and act humble about it.   Breasts are the most objectified and sexualized part of women’s bodies. You can literally buy breasts as objects in novelty stores, on amazon, in sex toy stores, etc..
 Once I had come across these rubber balls made to look and feel like the real thing (only perfected in an eery unattainable way) — I knew I had to photograph them. It is a playful way for me to explore my own internalized sexism, and how it has shaped my relationship with my own body. Because even though I know all images of women’s bodies I see in the media have been tampered, I’m still trying to look like those images. I know they aren’t the real thing but that doesn’t stop me from hating my body for being “just“ that.
 Media constantly dismembers, packages and displays women’s bodies forthe purpose of selling really anything: cars, burgers, beer, weapons,.... bodyssues, self-hate, insecurity,... We have been objectified to such an extent that we are no longer seen as human beings but as sexual gadgets. We have been separated from our whole. Turned into a commodity. Femininity has been so far removed from our nature that it has become alien to people. Something they are afraid of. Something that needs to be controlled, censored or concealed as if it were a looming threat. But I believe the real threat is the imbalance that has been cultivated from a patriarchal society. — Annique Delphine   Annique Delphine is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work includes photography, video, installation and performance. Delphine’s work has been exhibited worldwide in cities including Berlin, New York, London and Los Angeles. Her Film „PLETHORA“ won Best Experimental Film at both the Toronto Arthouse Filmfestival (2016) and the Verona International Film Festival (2016). She has held workshops on overcoming body issues and the censorship of the feminine body in Los Angeles and Berlin.