Dek Unu Magazine - Rachel Feinstein

New York City artist-photographer Rachel Feinstein's work reveals the many layers of femininity in scenes of friction between the ideal and the real. Her highly-charged conceptual images combine artifacts of femininity: hair, high heels, hosiery, with beautiful portraits of women, often faceless and usually in retreat. There is always a tension clearly visible behind the beauty. Her Technicolor aesthetic fits Feinstein’s message perfectly—femininity is a lifetime of unresolvable contradictions — one is not born a woman but becomes one.