Case Study ‘Venus’
2019
Case Study ‘Venus’
2019
A short series offering visual ways for presenting various representations of Venus through history as a fashion editorial.
Deconstruction and an objective re-definition for the visual characteristics of Venus in the popular consciousness had been a significant task for the project to shift its form . As Venus of fertility served as a visual cornerstone for this project, the seductive woman figure had to enroll as a central characteristic.
We define our new goddess basing on pre-historical Venus from Willendorf through renaissance masterpieces and contemporary artworks, as well as the propaganda and narratives of the early feminist waves, served as a visual and textual guide to form all to one. We put our representation to test in a neutral scenery while emphasizing contemporary aesthetics, moving our question forward in time.
![Venus Erycina - Patron of prostitutes. As mentioned in the N°4 book of Ovid; April 23 was a celebration day by prostitutes of their particular god- Venus Erycina. ‘You common girls, celebrate the divine power of Venus: Venus suits those who earn much profit through your work. Offer incense that you may be given beauty and the fabor of the crowd, Oray for sweet talk, and to be blessed with lively jets’...’Now one ought to crowd her temple near the Colline Gate, One that takes its name from a Scilian hill” [(Ovid, Fasti 4. 865-74) Prostitutes and matrons in the Roman world page 183]](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2f4f205b1d830286c8b4fe3480312a126a8f074e479e61ac5da2384224b7a42/CaseStudy-Venus-9.jpg)
