Josefa Yáñez R.

Geometric Bodies

The stereotyped female body read as a geometric standard, in die-cuts and transparencies.

Year
2024
Role
Editorial design
The brief

The task was to say something about geometry without stating it outright. The piece draws an analogy between the stereotyped female body and the idea of a geometric standard, reading that figure as a normative construction: idealized proportions, fixed schemes.

It is built with die-cuts and transparencies.

The six faces of the piece laid flat: black and white photographs of the body cut through with triangles and circles.
The piece
Hands open the piece on a wooden bench; the die-cut curve reveals the page beneath.
The die-cut curve shows the next page before you turn it.
Transparencies
The piece held against the light: the transparencies lay one page's figure over the next.
Held to the light, one figure lands on top of the one behind it.
A die-cut triangle and circle frame the torso in the photograph below.
The triangle and the circle frame the torso in the photograph below.
The die-cut
Detail of the die-cut: the cut edges of the circle and the triangle in the paper.
Academic project