{"product_id":"bernice-bobs-her-hair-natasja-mabesonne","title":"Bernice Bobs Her Hair - Natasja Mabesonne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBernice Bobs Her Hair \u003c\/em\u003eis a series of layered soft ground etchings, drawings and monotypes by Natasja Mabesoone. The title is a nod towards a Fitzgerald story about Bernice, who changes her approach to traditional gender roles and youth over a visit to her niece Marjorie. The act of having her hair cut transforms her character into a real flapper and brings her to a new perception of femininity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStarting from the biased idea and normative use of marginalised graphic procedures as a means of reproduction, the idea of repetition is explored so that iterations become alterations or modifications of the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously, associations cease to exist and the pregnant B, punning at times, as form and counterform encloses the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFluid figures, painterly gestures and cartoonish scrawls and patterns are subject to a reflection on cuteness, power (-lessness), sexuality and domesticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy highlighting marginalised modes of artistic practice and craft-informed techniques, Mabesoone recoups visual languages that have habitually been coded as ultra-feminine and trivial. She questions how these ambiguous and subversive aesthetics can gain authority, and destabilise or resist contemporary realities and dominant cultural constructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePosture Editions, 2021\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover, 140pp \u003cbr\u003e300 x 210mm \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57387377066361,"sku":null,"price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks-13_f3c71514-1466-4a9f-b5cf-1bd2f250369a.jpg?v=1780663629","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.co.uk\/products\/bernice-bobs-her-hair-natasja-mabesonne","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}