About the artwork
With her piercing gaze, this heroine seems to look the viewer directly in the eye. She's wearing a mask made up of superhero comic book excerpts, the style of which contrasts sharply with the hyper-realistic treatment of her face. Although her expression is neutral, the quality of the detail in her eyes conveys a certain fragility. This play of contrasts, present throughout the Cages series from which this work springs, contrasts the fragility of a woman oppressed by society's expectations of her, with the heroism with which she must adorn herself. In this way, Sandra Chevrier challenges heroic figures, revealing their weakness to create an analogy with the feminist struggle in which the artist is engaged.
Expert opinion
This work is part of the Cages series, Sandra Chevrier's most acclaimed work. Here we can appreciate her mastery of hyper-realistic painting, which she subtly contrasts with the vivacity and energy of pop culture to express her ideals in a sensitive, political composition.
About the artist
Born in 1983, Sandra Chevrier is a Canadian artist with a degree in visual and media arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since childhood, she has been fascinated by the representation of the eye and the gaze. This continues in her current work, notably in her most acclaimed series, the Cages. Using paint as her preferred medium, and sometimes superimposing collage, the artist develops hyper-realistic portraits of women that explore the contrasts between a fragile reality and the superficiality of imposed ideals. Her work, nourished by pop culture, sometimes dialogues with urban art in the creation of frescoes, notably during a collaboration with Shepard Fairey in 2020 in Austin, Texas. Numerous exhibitions have been devoted to him around the world, including at Hong Kong's Above Second Gallery in 2016, Berlin's Urban Nation Museum in 2017 and the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California in 2018.
“Society demands that we be superheroes. Preconceptions of what we should or shouldn't be, how we should or shouldn't act, think or believe. False ideas of perfection and beauty. Unrealistic expectations that women should become "superheroes" as if they were meant to be. What's left is a false sense of one's own identity and social pressures.”
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