ANGIE ENG

High Property Value, 2009
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video: Angie Eng

High Property Value is about women’s subjection to societal values on beauty.  An older woman’s feet are deformed  from  years of wearing high heels.  An ironic twist on beauty is depicted by polishing nails of her deformed feet. The beginning shot of a veil that uncovers the feet alludes to the current crisis of European national identity, its fear of Islam as a threat to women’s liberty.  Women trained to be uncomfortably fashionable in the West are paralleled with women in the East whose dress is designed to hide and protect. In both cases, women are both objectified and commodified.