Eliza Bourner

United Kingdom

Series: You Are a Star

‘You Are a Star’ explores our modern fixation of achievement and success. An unsettling world suspended between reality and fiction, this series responds to the relentless ideals of perfection and productivity that today’s society encourages; leading to anxiety and exhaustion in the postmodern individual. Our drive to escape the mundanity of our day to day lives and the pressure to achieve, fueled by the impossible standards set by the veneer of mass media, becomes insatiable. Economically exploitative, our need to ‘better ourselves’ in the guise of positivity and freedom leaves us unsatisfied, always wanting more.