The$Aesthe(cs$of$Exhibi(onism$ - Arcadia Missa

If our altered context means that there are many faces to which we are jailed to,
then there's also more and more attempts at highlighting and even escaping this
cell.
Below is a selfie that Maja Malou Lyse made for Arcadia Missa’s last journal, and
which she too also uploaded to her tumblr. The images by both Maja and Jesse are
in keeping with the aesthetics of their means of distribution.
With Jesse, just the font and format provided by her twitter, screenshotted, creates
a meaningful image.
And with Maja, a longer process has occurred:
She created a photoshoot, and the image she chose from this, she then
photoshopped, specifically adding into the photo, an image of the facebooking
tagging feature – face recognition for images, which states ‘type any name here’, in
order to help the user to find their friend and then tag them into an image.
Her photoshopping becomes the method for subverting the image of the female
body, and inferring its maintained position as an object in contemporary culture.
This tagging feature is also one of the various ways I understand the individual
image, as a composition in itself, bleeding outwards – the position of the image
more so acting within algorithms, generating social performance or categorising the
way that we view the world.