Mass Makeup: Freckles

2017
Beauty as a social construct explored through performative graphic design, with situatedness shaping its expression

Drawing on Korean standards of beauty, makeup trends, and plastic surgery, the project treats faces as canvases—sites where individuality clashes with conformity. In The Mass Makeup performance, Tereza’s face becomes a stage, questioning how society transforms skin and muscle into a cultural artifact.

  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: three oval faces as canvases on trolleys, numbered patches on skin, a caped performer points up
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: a performer in the makeup cape spreads both arms on a lawn, a crowd watches by a dotted bench
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: two helpers in red unfurl a 'MAKEUP' cape around a performer, an oval face canvas waits behind
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: three oval faces as canvases ring a lawn, a bench of painted dots set for the performance
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: oval canvas C on a blue trolley, painted dots freckle the numbered patches, a face becomes a stage
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: freckled skin as canvas, brown, cream and pink patches crowded with painted dots by one grey eye
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: a grey eye peers between brown and cream patches stuck with painted dots, skin turned canvas
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: a freckled face becomes a stage, patches 5 to 8 in brown, cream and coral, pink dots as makeup
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: a performer in the makeup cape presses a palm to patch 11 of an oval face canvas on a trolley
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: a performer in the makeup cape leans to lift a painted dot from a long bench, oval faces behind
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: a performer in the makeup cape, from behind, lifts both arms, 'MAKE' lettered in red and brown
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: a performer sticks painted dots to patches 9 and 10 of a giant face canvas, makeup as performance
  • Mass Makeup: Freckles: the makeup cape hangs on a black wall bracket, 'BEAUTY' in Korean and English over red patches