Artist: Eleni is bored again

Title: Mapedusa

As a woman and an artist, I believe it is my right to misinterpret and mess up the myths that men have been serving us for so many years. In this piece I am interested in creating confusion between who is who, who looks at whom, and what is their purpose.

Interpretation of the Myth of Medusa: There are many contemporary discussions around the male’s gaze and how it has historically suppressed women. But why would men do that? In the myth of Medusa, Medusa represents the feminine which men are avoiding to face as it will reduce them to corpses. Instead of looking at them, they chose to look down on them; the moment they will look into the woman’s eyes, they will die.

The Myth of Mapedusa: I, Mapedusa, have developed my own technique to protect myself from any possible disastrous encounter with the other(s), but I forgot that a perfectly safe world is also a boring world. In a world with no others, I become the other. What have I now become if not the one, the other and the other’s other? Who am I, who are you, who holds the mirror and who’s the one in the mirror? What does one become outside the gaze of the other? Why are the snakes taking over all my body? Have I been caught on my own trap?

Models: Bored Ape #6591 owned by Junics_Vault