CHOSEN [NOT] TO BE


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This series is part of a wider project entitled “Radical Beauty”, which aims, via the medium of photography, to give people with Down syndrome the visibility that they deserve to have in visual arts. The young women with whom Marinka Masséus has worked all share a strong desire to succeed. Each and every day, they fight against feelings of inferiority and frustration.

With “Chosen [not] to be”, the artist opens a discussion on their everyday life – the obstacles they face, society’s refusal to acknowledge their abilities, the invisible quality of what makes their true personality – and seeks to translate their experiences visually. Her aim is to defend this cause while stressing the individuality, beauty and essence of her models. Marinka Masséus subtly depicts this fragile balance between praise and denunciation.

Marinka Masséus is a Dutch artist born in 1970. After completing an MBA, she studied Buddhist psychology, then photography at the Photo Academy in Amsterdam. The photographer is interested in people and their place in society. Her favourite subjects are injustice and inequality.

photographs by Marinka MASSÉUS

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