101

Three inkjet prints: 115×170 cm, 121×170 cm, 125.4×170 cm

How does it affect me when I search through online profiles? Can I distinguish between how a person actually looks in real life and how they present themselves on Instagram?

After almost seven years on Instagram I can say that I cannot say and couldn’t guess how much content is staged and put into a perfect light.

After documenting my consumption, I realized that Social Media played a huge role in my life because in fact I spent over two hours a day on it. If you’re annualizing it, I spent almost one month just being on Instagram searching through meaningless content and staged people.

Especially if you’re in my generation Instagram can have a big influence when it comes to self-confidence and the compulsion to compare. As I grew up with it I didn’t question whether the content was fake. I was not critical and didn’t see it from a different angle.

Self-reflection led me to realize that I feel inadequate and not good enough when I search through other people’s profiles. Especially when it comes to the female body and the idealization of it.

101 is a statement against the idealization of the perfect body on Instagram. The selected pictures are representing women who uploaded their picture with the hashtag “perfect body”. I put myself on top and ruptured both identities, the idealized body and myself.