From IPS:
In a society that dictates how a woman should look — hourglass figure and shiny, long hair — Chinese artist Xiang Jing dares to turn stereotypes on their head and disturb those who view her fibreglass sculptures.
In the Shanghai-based artist’s exhibit, ‘Naked Beyond Skin’, visitors may well find themselves fidgeting and taking a second look as they make their way around lifelike, life-size or larger-than-life sculptures, of nude women in various everyday moods and moments.
Unlike the usual art pieces though, these polished and painted sculptures do not embody the ideal female proportions. Many in fact reflect the opposite — the real, the imperfect.
Instead of svelte women and glamorised supermodel-like bodies, there is plenty of flabby skin, droopy breasts, and bulging stomachs in the works of the 40-year-old Xiang Jing, a Beijing-born artist whose sculptures have become popular in China’s art scene in recent years.
