Julia Cybularz

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www.juliacybularz.com/

Breaking The Girl

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Location: Philadelphia and Boston

Nationality: USA

Biography: Julia Cybularz is an artist working in Philadelphia. In 2000, she graduated with honors from Drexel University and went on to earn her MFA from The School of Visual Arts in 2007. I have had the opportunity to exhibit my photographic... MORE

Breaking the Girl, visually in...al urge of the body to expand.

Breaking the Girl, visually investigates the emotional and physical connections people have to their bodies and minds during times when their bodies fail them. Hannah, of Breaking the Girl, is pictured as a prepubescent twelve-year-old girl who also has a severe curvature of her spine. She has been repeatedly, and painfully fitted with, and worn numerous braces since she was nine. The photographs show a young girl about to embark on the physical changes that coincide with puberty while facing the confines of a corseted brace worn twenty-three hours a day which restricts the natural urge of the body to expand.