Johanna Weber
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What a Joy Life Can Be in This Body

What a Joy Life Can Be in This Body

2026
170 × 130 cm
Oil on linen

A brunette Sleeping Beauty, head bowed and smiling like a nice girl, is paired with a line from Emily Ratajkowski’s book My Body, and it holds two truths. Being alive in a body is a joy. The irony is the body it is attached to, the perfect princess body every little girl is taught to want but can’t have, which can be extended to the idealized bodies we consume on our social feeds as grown-ups.

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