"Helene" from series "Beauty has no restrictions", 2025

By Carmen Ööbik ^{Emerging artist}

64 x 57 x 43 cm

Plaster

“Helene” is a part of a series “Beauty has no restrictions”. Sometimes the elements that are criticized in the human body are interesting and beautiful in art. But what is beauty? Do beauty and ideality exist? This is the beginning of a series of plaster torsos that tell how each body is beautiful and interesting just as it is, both in art and in real life. They must not be criticized, but respected, because they show the life they have lived. To bring torsos to life, they have the names of their models and in both text and audio the models stories of living in their bodies. Helene talks about living in her body as a weird mixture of feelings. She has big breasts, which she hates. She would love to get them removed, but also feels sad that she wants to change her body, cause she feel that her body is not to blame for being the way it is.