Do you do this all the time or am I the first?

Much time has passed since Orlan reconstructed her identity combining the beauty traits of the most famous portraits of Western iconography. There is no trace of Venus or Mona Lisa in Veronica Bellei’s face. In these self-portraits composed online, where Second Life has accustomed us to female avatars modeled after Lara Croft and Charlie’s Angels, we find the poses of a housewife and the gestuality of a domestic slave. Beyond net-dating, cyber-sex and virtual flirting, man’s object of desire of the third millennium withdraws into a typical 1950s image, far preceding the sexual revolution. Amidst refrigerators, radiators and curlers, the cyber-housewife offers herself willingly because she is fundamentally bored.

Valeria Burgio