Juno Calypso

Performance art, self-portraits and photography merge together in Calypso’s work. Her images are catchy, Tumblr-like reminders of what society projects upon women.Some may recognize series of photographic images, where the artist lays melancholically in a heart-shaped bathtub, her brunette hair soaked in foamed water. Others might have encountered the back of a wigged blonde, with a pink curtain backdrop and the ruffled knickers to match. The phenomena of Juno Calypso lays in your newsfeed, whether you follow her or not. Her project titled Honeymoon attracted press coverage, but the character she chose to play has found her own way.

Joyce is a critical study on ‘modern concept of beauty,’ where women are pressured into a poignant construction of femininity. Calypso dives into the mystery of beauty routines, filling her scenery with “innovative” versus nostalgic objects. Where one finds the millennial pink imagery romanticized, monitored with a closer look it no longer appears as innocent. The beauty equipment pictured in her work varies from electric masks connected with wire and remote controllers to her body laboriously covered in green mud, her wig triumphantly untouched. Joyce is Calypso’s alter ego, whatever she does, the result will never be as satisfying as of that projected by the general public. Joyce is alone, in her never-ending race to outrun age and meet perfection at the finish line.