Canadian - Artist | December 21, 1992 -
It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.
Petra Collins
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A good jean that fits someone's butt right is just amazing. It's just classic.
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I didn't see spaces where female artists could exist and exhibit their work. So I created a platform for this - one that allowed our works to be seen, but to also weave a community of women that could lean on and work with one another.
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The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves.
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The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because there is a level of self-monitoring.
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I want people to see themselves in a person. I never want someone to aspire to be someone else.
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With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.
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When you see stories about women that aren't being told by women, it can make you feel like you don't exist.
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People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.
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I always had this feeling, what I wanted to do. I was trying to work out myself, my frustrations, my body. I couldn't really pinpoint. I started taking photos of my sister and her friends. I was 15, exploring what it meant to be a 15-year-old girl.
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Curating, in the modern sense, is something I gravitate to. Taking different ideas from a bunch of different places and putting them into one place or space, a story that makes sense or a new idea. Everything is remixed and taken from other things to make something new.
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Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.
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