Artist Juno Calypso shows a new series of self-portraits taken on her unlikely one-woman road trip to a honeymoon hotel. With their retro appearance, pastel pink walls, heart-shaped hot tubs and mirrors everywhere, Calypso has found that love hotels are the perfect place to explore her body and the way she uses it. Joyce, the fictional character she stages, seems to be constrained to that surreal space, making funny faces.
Reminiscent of Guy Bourdin’s style but without the idealized aesthetics of the female body, Juno Calypso’s photography rejects the expectations of female perfection and beauty, and portrays a caricature of women struggling against the feminist ideal.
