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| Restricting intake, counting calories, dieting, consuming laxatives, stapling stomachs and wiring jaws, wrapping bodies, sucking out fat, liposuctioning, redistributing fat, micro fat sculpting. Defining muscle to specific criteria, gender toning. Frequenting gyms, aerobic stepping, pumping and sweating. Removing hair, shaving, waxing, plucking, immacing. Implanting silicone the contemporary paraffin, flaunting breasts with elevated nipples, pouting collagen filled lips. Breaking, resetting and filing down noses. Lifting faces and eyelids, stretching legs with steel rods. Injecting estrogen, youth serum and poison. Drinking eight glasses of Evian for a clear complexion only to cloud it with concealer. Cleansing, exfoliating, toning and moisturising skin only to kill it with Botulinum toxin, botoxing. Lasering off bits of labias, tightening vaginas, cutting off lumps, bumps and imperfections. Adding to and distracting from the original framework, moulding and carving the existing structure. These are the actions referenced and deconstructed in these works, the contemporary actions of corporeal construction. Obsessive, compulsive and often ritualised actions. Contradicting boundaries these actions interlock pleasure with pain, the real with the ideal, love with loath. Actions that inform children of their plasticity and the importance of moulding it into something better. Actions that secure a billion dollar profit margin while pushing every conceivable form of bodily mutation so that an Asian can become a European, a man can become a woman. Actions in pursuit of the elusive ideal, actions that leave no excuse for not becoming someone. | ||||||