BODYis a project by Constance Koningsberger, examining her personal experience, and self-perception around the stigmatisation of being fat.
Weight stigma is a serious issue which can affect mental and physical health, and brings with it extensive discrimination in all aspects of life, including in the professional sector. For people assigned female at birth, being slim, and conforming to heteronormative beauty standards, has real-life consequences. Studies have shown that people assigned female at birth that fulfil heteronormative beauty standards are paid substantially higher salaries.
The growing ‘fat acceptance movement’ has championed an end to the discrimination that fat people face. This movement deliberately uses the word ‘fat’ to describe larger bodies, in part to reclaim the word as a neutral descriptor of a body type, and strip the word of its power to hurt.
Curator Alejandra Ortiz writes, ‘BODYis a series of images that strike me as queer by nature, since queer is, to me, everything that deviates from the rigid binary standards of today’s society.’
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Entry Audio Tour by Alejandra Ortiz, curator of this year’s exhibition.
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