Iiu Susiraja’s Self-Portraits Are More Than a Dare

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The Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja makes photographs using herself as a model, but her images are less self-portraits than still-lifes.

A deadpan protagonist—or a jarring centerpiece—she appears amid carefully staged arrangements of household objects, gazing into the camera with rich dispassion.Take the image “Fountain,” from 2021. The shot’s vantage foreshortens Susiraja’s reclining figure, exaggerating its proportions, rendering her bare legs and midsection mountainous while shrinking her head, which almost aligns with the composition’s vanishing point.

To the extent that such vignettes are funny—they are and they aren’t—Susiraja practices a perilous form of physical comedy. A fat woman is by cultural default already an object of ridicule; inviting laughter by clenching a baguette between her legs, or ironing a pizza to her chest, could easily spin out of her control. Perhaps Susiraja’s blank affect is the key to her peculiar power to retain the upper hand.

 

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Jesus Christ this photo

This sickens me. Disgusting!

yuck!!

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poor lady

Stillbirths more like it.

jc

Yuck. This isn’t worth the the time that it took to write. It’s only redeeming value is possibly for someone trying to reduce their caloric intake and needing some visual cues. Validation of mental and physical sickness.

I guess life does imitate art.

To start the day.. more of the NutellaGlobal girl.. Cc Ye_Olde_Holborn

Fantastic piece, oozes a yeast filled juxtaposition of all the right ingredients and preservatives.

You know a lot of hard-working ARTISTS out there who never get support at all. What about this is art exactly? Can you explain? Covering my half-naked body in bread is more valuable than handmade artworks with meaning?

She’s bearing up just fine.

Does real art have a chance to be featured in The New Yorker these days?

What a time to be alive!

Cindy Sherman won't be losing any sleep.

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These are bizarre. I love the bizarre!!

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