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

By Carmen Ööbik ^{Emerging artist}

72 x 49 x 24 cm

Plaster

“Len” 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. Len talks about liking the parts about their body, that they have had the chance to change, like tattoos, removed breasts and muscles. They knew from a young age, that they will not be the “pretty girl” and now found their non-binary identity, which confirmed that. Lately they have gotten a feeling, that a person can never be satisfied with their body: they dream of bigger shoulders and more masculine body, even though they have gotten everything they wanted with their body.