Matilde Søes Rasmussen, Inspiration

Inspiration

Matilde Søes Rasmussen

Publisher
XYZ Books
Year
2025
ISBN
978-989-35169-6-6
Specifications
Softcover
24 x 16.5 cm
168 pages
500 copies
Book concept and design by ilhas studio
Cover Illustration by Anskar Beau
First edition
Developed within the Creative Europe initiative Intergaláctica 2024-25

Inspiration explores tensions and contradictions: between artist and muse, photographer and model, the body and her representation, fascination and ambiguity, observation and desire. As a former model, Rasmussen is deeply interested in how the female body has been commodified in both historical and contemporary visual representations, especially informed by her research on Audrey Munson, one of the earliest figures in the modeling industry. Both muse and tragic archetype, Munson's lingering presence in the artist's work becomes a subversive inquiry—where the body, like a sculpture, serves as both a site of projection and resistance, shaped by external expectations yet asserting its own agency and presence. Both photographer and photographed, artist and model, observer and observed, Rasmussen seeks to perform questions rather than answer them. Can one critique the beauty industry and systems of female representation by photographing them? Or does the act of documentation inevitably reinforce the very structures it seeks to question?

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