Luh’De Gita Indonesian, b. 1997
Marie on Set, 2023
Oil on Canvas
80 x 70 cm
Referenced from a behind the scene photo of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. It’s a social commentary on how women are expected to act like a “queen”, classy, pretty and having...
Referenced from a behind the scene photo of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. It’s a social commentary on how women are expected to act like a “queen”, classy, pretty and having good manners; almost pure. The posture of Kirsten Dunst, the actress behind Marie Antoinette is all against it. Not to justify her controversial actions in the French revolution but the aspect on how in the movie she was adamant to have a child with king Louis XV at first, until she received a letter from her mother, Maria Theresa, the Holy Roman Empress, warning her that an unconsummated marriage could be easily annulled. This shows that women were and some are still seen as just reproduction machines; like white rabbits. If you look closely, the movie tried to tell a different look of story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria to her later life in France.