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Video: "Real Women" Strike A Pose On City Streets
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Ben Yakas
Published Aug 25, 2011
Modified Aug 26, 2011
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For her latest project, artist Yolanda Dominguez sent "real women" out into the streets to strike bizarre model stances. She uses the "impossible stances" of the fashion pages as a symbol of how "grotesque and unreal this industry is." The monologues about wanting to be a model gets drowned out by the off-kilter music as the "real women" perform the poses in daily scenes—our favorite part is the concerned people (at 3:00) who inspect whether a posing woman is actually passed out in the park. Watch "Poses" below:
Update: As has been clarified by Racked and Guardian (...as well as at the very end of the video), "Poses" was filmed on the streets of Madrid, not NYC. But we still think it's a cool little video!
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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