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The Surreal Life
by Yuri Dojc
In photo number seventeen, a buxom nude looks as though she's balancing an encyclopedia on her head. She has the determination, if not the consternation, of a woman in the '50s working on her posture — for if a lady is to be considered a lady, she must first perfect her deportment. It is an antiquated notion, one Dojc employs as comic relief: Look how lovely the subject is, she can balance a chicken in rigor mortis on her head! The bird here is not a portent of gloom and doom, but an unexpected prop, like the dustpan in image number four and the porcelain teapot in fifteen. Dojc plays with traditional symbols of domesticity and femininity and turns them upside down, or at least horizontal.