Senior Thesis Exhibition

Right now, our world is torn between a multitude of movements and protests.
My work has been directly influenced by the Time’s Up movement, an organization
of women in cinema that has been building for many years. They aim to show that
there has been a discrepancy in the portrayal of men and women in cinema. How
many female-led superhero films are there? How did the posters promote the char-
acter? Did she show her face, or was she turned away? Take a look and observe how
women are positioned and sexualized in posters for films that have no sexual con-
tent, revealing how graphic designers and advertisers represent the female charac-
ters even if they have equivalent roles as men in the same film.

My art brings attention to and analyze the use of women in cinema, with still
images from major blockbusters or posters of their characters. I purposefully make
these images unrecognizable, showing how distorted female characters are in the
advertisements compared to their actual portrayal on the silver screen. These prints
are made to emulate the look and feel of a standard poster that you would see in
your typical movie theatre, by printing them at the exact same size as real posters.
These collaged prints show the repetitive and gratuitous nature of the way posters
and advertisements for films use women to draw in crowds. These prints are meant
to grab your attention with their bright colors and striking imagery just like advertisers create posters to do the same for their audiences.