in this photoseries, we explored feminine “purity” and female rage.

imagery + motifs are from the a central figure of greek mythology: clytemnestra.

clytemnestra’s daughter, iphigenia, is sacrificed by agamemnon, clytemnestra’s husband, in order to gain good winds to travel to the war of troy. she plots her revenge and patiently awaits, for years, her husban’d return. when he returns, she murders him with an ax.

according to euripedes, he also murdered her first husband and son. i think about the rage she must have felt seeing her husband sacrifice her daughter, the only light she had in the world. i think of the regret she must have had marrying such a man, and giving up her ‘purity’ to him.

here, the subject goes through “pure, virgin” bridehood to eating a heart (whose? her husband’s? child’s? her own?) to divinity.