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The male gaze continues its long career. Kim Kardashian, in all her ubiquity, has been accepted by one of the foremost fashion brands, Balenciaga, as an appropriate model – status icon – to walk for their couture show in Paris. Simultaneously, Kardashian is shrinking the curves that defined her, moving toward the ‘heroin chic’ that defined the fashion of the 90’s and in such figures as Kate Moss. This is nothing less than a cultural revolution, in my view, and apotheosis for this self-deifying figure. It a new high- water mark for the male gaze, which continues its long career – now online.

Tyler Payne 2022

Works by Tyler Payne Installation Shot

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Vanitas (Kim)

Digital Installation, (electro bri-collage animation, timber, vintage frame)

This work is a homage to Audrey Flack’s painting Marilyn (Vanitas) 1977 re-imagined as a digital animated installation with the contemporary beauty figure of our time Kim Kardashian.

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PhD examination hang for documentation

Images (C) Janelle Low 2022

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Vanitas (Kim)

(C) Tyler Payne 2022

Digital Installation, (electro bri-collage animation, timber, vintage frame)

This work is a homage to Audrey Flack’s painting Marilyn (Vanitas) 1977 re-imagined as a digital animated installation with the contemporary beauty figure of our time Kim Kardashian.

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Kardashian’s body – highly stylised and instantly recognisable – appears as a site of intense objectification in contemporary culture. It a form of objectification that suits commodification well. Perhaps more than any other celebrity today, her own celebrity seems fixed in a frozen form, like Medusa turned to stone.

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Keeping Time

Keeping Time is a series of three electro-bri-collage animations that investigate how myth cycles are rife with stories designed to oppress women and their agency. These narratives often ‘legitimize male privilege by muting female authority.’ Kim Kardashian is the muse of these animations. After bursting into notoriety and fame in 2007 with a sex-tape, Kardashian has built a billion dollar empire. My work is preoccupied with the fact that the invention of social media has allowed for new intensities of commodification and the intrusion of capitalist commodification into more intimate forms of life than ever before (the commodification of communication via emojis for example). In terms of a ‘capitalist’ who has mastered accumulation through these new commodity forms, Kim Kardashian is, in my view, exemplary. The animations are littered with visual examples of her beauty empire. The project of the Kardashian body is an attempt to satisfy the symbolic demands of the male gaze in the real. Kardashian has, in a way, cosmetically enhanced and shaped her body to become a surrealist object itself, a superimposition of the ideal and the real.

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#doitfortheafterselfie Works by Tyler Payne, Installation view, Site 8 Gallery, RMIT University

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Fountain of Youth © Tyler Payne 2021 Electro bri-collage animation 43 seconds

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Aesthetics (In Front of the Mirror) After Władysław Czachórsk © Tyler Payne 2020 iPad, moving image and timber 23cm x 36cm

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KIMUSA © Tyler Payne 2021 Electro bri-collage animation 1 minute & 18 seconds

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The Image Looks Backs RMIT Gallery 2020 Aesthetics + Keeping Time + #doitfortheafterselfie

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This work is a homage to Audrey Flack’s painting Marilyn (Vanitas) 1977 re-imagined as a digital animated installation with the contemporary beauty figure of our time Kim Kardashian.

#vanitas #install