Raky Josefine Wane

As part of the bachelors thesis project “The Black Female Body: Reconstructed Representations of Black Womanhood in Wangechi Mutu‘s "A Shady Promise“ (2006) I engage in a confrontation with my own Black female body. Pictured in a state of transformation I find myself in a process of ‘becoming-aware’ of racialised and sexualised images that have informed and distorted my perception of my body. I recognise the stages of shapeshifting my body has undergone and how this has led me on a path to self-definition. It is a vulnerable endeavour to shed myself from harmful ideas from the outside and deal with what’s beneath. "You’re so worth it, Baby!" is an intervention in the world of image-making that attempts to irritate dominant gaze regimes.