“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”
- John Berger, Ways of Seeing
“Beauty, power, and confdence without gaze. Then, a man holds up a mirror and kills her. There is nothing mythical about that.”
- Sennah Yee, How Do I Look?

Looking Out examines the female subject by looking at visual representations from digital selfies to renaissance portraiture. The piece uses analog media, including overhead projector, to overlay, manipulate and re/deconstruct the “male gaze”. Through image creation techniques, this performance seeks to subvert tropes of “the bitch”, “the whore”, “the virgin” and “the mother”.

Inspirations images include: Medusa (Caravaggio), Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Picasso), Lady with an Ermine (Da Vinci), and Freedom from Want (Rockwell).

Madie Jolliffe: Collaborator

Process photos by: Alessandra Tom