Blue Women (2023-2026) Over the course of three years, Brea Souders photographed posters taped to the windows of beauty shops and salons, which had gradually faded to blue. With the color shift, the posters estrange the conventions of female beauty imagery and reveal their low-resolution digital origins. Promises of perfection and improvement begin to unravel. The effects are furthered by Souders’ interest in small details within these posters, which she isolates and photographs in situ, leaving the originals to continue changing. With a frame of reference taking in everything from philosophical and poetic writings on the color blue, to the feminist history of image appropriation, Blue Women extends and deepens Souders’ longstanding interest in the representations of women in visual culture.
