Modern Aesthetics


Modern Aesthetics, an exaggerated portrait on cosmetic beauty trends, by Bonfelle

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Scroll through any feed long enough and the faces start to blur together: the same lips, the same brows, the same filtered glow. These pieces look at how cosmetic surgery and trends are quietly sanding individuality down into sameness.

I pushed the features until they tipped into exaggeration, because that’s what the ideal already is: a promise of perfection that costs you a little of yourself.

I keep coming back to one question: when everyone is engineered to look beautiful, what happens to the faces that made us who we are?

الجمال الحديث

تصفّح أي منصة طويلاً فتبدأ الوجوه بالتشابه: الشفاه نفسها، والحواجب نفسها، والتوهّج المفلتر نفسه. تتأمل هذه الأعمال كيف تصقل الجراحات التجميلية والصيحات الفرديةَ حتى تتحوّل إلى تشابه. بالغتُ في الملامح حتى انقلبت إلى مبالغة، لأن هذا هو المثال الذي يُروَّج له: وعد بالكمال يكلّفك شيئاً من ذاتك. ويبقى السؤال: حين يُصمَّم الجميع ليبدوا جميلين، ماذا يحدث للوجوه التي صنعت ما نحن عليه؟

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