{"id":37356,"date":"2016-09-14T18:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=37356"},"modified":"2016-09-14T18:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:15:31","slug":"juno-calypso-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/juno-calypso-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Juno Calypso: 'I'm conveying a woman's right to be selfish'"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Juno The Honeymoon Suite, 2015<\/p>\n

Last year, photographer Juno Calypso travelled all the way from her hometown of London to visit\u00a0a Pennsylvanian love hotel. But the artist wasn’t making this trek to celebrate recent nuptials, as is the case with most guests staying at the honeymoon lodge.\u00a0Rather, she was prepared to embark on a new photo project all alone, save for her accidentally created alter ego Joyce. Entitled “The Honeymoon”, Calypso’s series of self portraits shot inside the retro resort are a bubblegum-tinged ode to womanhood and finding comfort in solitude.
\nThough at first glance her images appear\u00a0to centre on the sweet, a closer inspection reveals the\u00a0sense of eeriness\u00a0that lies underneath. The series has received widespread praise, with Calypso winning a coveted spot as one of Foam Magazine’s Talent winners. As a result, her work will be shown along with the other participants at this year’s Unseen Photo Fair<\/a>.
\nIn preparation for her Amsterdam show, we chatted with the photographer about the emotions that inspired her honeymoon hotel series as well as the history behind her elusive alter ego Joyce.<\/p>\n

“The woman who married herself; I love that woman”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Juno A Dream in Green, 2015<\/p>\n

On her motives behind featuring Joyce alone in a setting intended for couples:<\/h2>\n

Honestly, I hadn’t thought about it much before heading out. But once I arrived, I began to think about intimacy, solitude, companionship, marriage and monogamy. It made me think about the woman who married herself<\/a>; I love that woman.
\nAlone in the suite, I realised how irritating it would be to share the room with someone else. I loved having it to myself. Maybe I’m conveying a woman’s right to be selfish. Who knows?<\/p>\n

On Joyce:<\/h2>\n

I would exclusively use friends or models in my previous work, only photographing myself as a stand-in for test shots. To make things less awkward, I’d pull a silly expression\u00a0or hide my face completely. My university professor once saw these images, and while I expected her to find them juvenile she actually encouraged me to continue. So I created Joyce.<\/p>\n

“Veiling the face has a long cultural history, especially with women”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Juno Untitled, 2015<\/p>\n

\"Juno The First Night, 2015<\/p>\n

On\u00a0the reasons behind\u00a0Joyce’s obscured face:<\/h2>\n

I have a funny face and it’s always betraying me, so I avoid the situation by covering it up. I don’t mind seeing a bad photo of my body, but an unsavoury image of my face sends me into an existential crisis. Plus veiling the face has a long cultural history, especially with women, and I like the way it segues into that discussion.<\/p>\n

On her plans for a worldwide love hotel tour:<\/h2>\n

I had this grand idea to go to Japan and Brazil, but in the end I returned to Pennsylvania. I booked a room at a similar resort nearby the previous\u00a0hotel. I just felt like there was some unfinished business lingering in that area.<\/p>\n

On what makes Unseen Photo Fair different from other photography events:<\/h2>\n

The fair always exhibits so much colour and experimental presentation. I’ve been going for a couple of years now, and it was always a show that I could envision my work fitting in with.<\/p>\n

\"Juno The Champagne Suite, 2015<\/p>\n

\"Juno Slendertone I and II, 2015<\/p>\n

\"Juno Seaweed Wrap, 2015<\/p>\n

\"Juno Massage Mask, 2015<\/p>\n

\"Juno Eternal Beauty<\/p>\n

For more information on Juno Calypso please visit the artist’s Website<\/a><\/strong> \nThe 2016 Unseen Photo Fair<\/a> runs from\u00a0 23 September until 25 September, where the artist’s work can be seen at the TJ Boulting <\/a>booth<\/strong> \n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selected as one of Foam’s 2016 Talent winners, this UK photographer is poised for stardom<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[38,527,5782,5781,154,5590,5591],"class_list":["post-37356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-art","tag-feminism","tag-foam-talent","tag-juno-calypso","tag-photography","tag-unseen-photo-fair-2016","tag-unseen-photo-festival"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"\nJuno Calypso: 'I'm conveying a woman's right to be selfish' Juno Calypso: 'I'm conveying a woman's right to be selfish'<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/juno-calypso-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Juno Calypso: 'I'm conveying a woman's right to be selfish' Juno Calypso: 'I'm conveying a woman's right to be selfish'\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Selected as one of Foam's 2016 Talent winners, this UK photographer is poised for stardom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/juno-calypso-art\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-14T16:15:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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