Blade For Babes

Blade for Babes is a reflection on beauty and innocence. The project aims to question our vision of the gender and the dictates that we impose on women and men in our modern western society.

Blade for Babes is a reflection on beauty and innocence. The project aims to question our vision of the gender and the dictates that we impose on women and men in our modern western society. Fascinated by certain symbols, I wanted to image a satirical criticism of certain codes and clichés that we are still struggling to question.

I am talking about the superficiality of certain injunctions that continue to feed taboos, and the psychological ill-being that threatens every girls and boys, every women and men, behind the violence that society imposes on us. The taboos that I myself lived and still live, which no longer make sense in our time, which hides a lot of unhappiness and misunderstanding in young people. Faced with our body, with our «duties» as women or men, our physical and psychological pain in the face of this constant pressure. And it is this violence, which I would like to reverse, by showing that resistance is possible, and that it is already coming to life. It is finally starting to come to life through feminist movements around the world, with strikes, demonstrations and other acts of force in the face of our patriarchal society.

I first wondered about certain everyday objects, which may seem trivial, but which basically have a symbolic charge that is no longer questioned. Whether it’s the kitchen knife, or the gloss, up to certain commercially gendered children’s products. Each time in a so-called feminine and gentle aesthetic to each time divert objects from their initial connotation and thus create discomfort.

© Margaux Corda - Image from the Blade For Babes photography project
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"The Robber" is a way of talking about violence against women by appropriating it and diverting the image from the clichés of the gentle woman.

© Margaux Corda - Image from the Blade For Babes photography project
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"The Knife" is the first image I made, which I think sums up the general theme well, it represents the kitchen knife supposedly dedicated to women, but it is both a murder weapon. The rather particular shape of the knife refers it more to a weapon, and the rhinestones applied to it are there to ironize all the object and its symbolic baggage.

© Margaux Corda - Image from the Blade For Babes photography project
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"The Snake" is a reference to the Garden of Eden, to the collective image of the terrifying and manipulative serpent, but also to its phallic form which resonates with it and is nevertheless associated with Eve from the genesis.

© Margaux Corda -  "The Hairs" is an homage of pubic/body hairs that society find so "dirty" and tries to kill so bad.
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 "The Hairs" is an homage of pubic/body hairs that society find so "dirty" and tries to kill so bad.

© Margaux Corda - «The Gloss» is a critique of the hyper sexualization of women from an early age.
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«The Gloss» is a critique of the hyper sexualization of women from an early age.

© Margaux Corda - The Worker
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The Worker

© Margaux Corda - The Eye
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The Eye

© Margaux Corda - The Skin
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The Skin

© Margaux Corda - Image from the Blade For Babes photography project
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"The Wrist" is a critique of the silence around mental illness and the discomfort of young people (scars of self-mutilation).

© Margaux Corda - The Lips
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The Lips

© Margaux Corda - The Toy
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The Toy

© Margaux Corda - The Comb
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The Comb

© Margaux Corda - "The Nipple" is a critic of the censorship specially on social medias.
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"The Nipple" is a critic of the censorship specially on social medias.

© Margaux Corda - The Dreamer
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The Dreamer

© Margaux Corda - The pills
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The pills

© Margaux Corda - The Mourning
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The Mourning

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