Kochi-based Swiss designer and creative consultant Vanessa Meister brought 100 of her portraits together in a show, ‘Woman’, held recently at the David Hall Art Gallery in Fort Kochi.
The portraits turned the conventional concept of beauty on its head. “All these women I have painted have different features, types of hair, nose shapes and expression. Some have make-up on, some don’t. One even has a moustache! The idea is to move away from the stereotypical ways in which women are depicted in the public domain and offer a broader perspective,” says Vanessa.
