I want to disappear
Autriche
2017Jury
Nowadays, more than 70 million individuals worldwide suffer from eating disorders. The pressure about physical appearance put on western young women pushes them towards those disorders. I want to disappear avoids the morbid stereotypes of anorexia as shown in the media and preferred a collaborative approach that focuses on the words of women and young women who overcame the disorder. The photographs are displayed along with interviews, drawings, sculptures, writings and pictures given to the artist by the protagonists.
With the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum
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About the artist
Mafalda Rakos was born in 1994. She lives and works in Vienna (Austria). She graduated from Die Graphische, but also studies anthopology, art and photography. Her work was published in several magazines and shown in many festivals. She received the Prix Révélations SAIF in 2013, and the Documentary Grant in 2014.