Sarah Winter

St. Surgery, 2022

3m x 2,25m

Installation

St. Surgery deals with the topic of plastic surgery and the never-ending search for beauty. But it is not a celebration thereof as the classic and iconic poses of the females might suggest. The work takes a closer look underneath the skin and at all the necessary surgical instruments to reveal the actual path of pain these women are going through. The intricate ornamentic underlines that they remain trapped in the physical and emotional pain of striving for an idealized beauty, rather than attaining liberation.