Juno Calypso @ TJ Boulting

This year the winner of the BJP International Award ‘Series’ is Juno Calypso, and this exhibition illustrates her beguiling commentary on beauty and femininity told through self-portraiture and her fictional character ‘Joyce’.  Joyce was first created in 2011 and consolidated her use of self-portraiture for over twenty years. Last year Calypso took Joyce to a couples-only resort in Pennsylvania, spending a week alone in the Honeymoon Suite with a suitcase of wigs and wedding lingerie. Over the course of the week she produced new images and videos, self-portraits as Joyce all alone in this surreally staged fallen utopia of love and happily ever after.