Through the Looking Glass

​Through the Looking Glass is a cross-cultural examination of the construction of female identity. In particular it explores the ways in which religion, art, fashion and the media impact on women and their sense of self. Sasi Victoire is a Malaysian Indian woman: bom at Port Dickson on the west coast of Malaysia; the eldest daughter of displaced Indian migrants. She moved to Australia in 1970 and more recently has found her new home in Regional NSW. Not long ago, Victoire's mother passed away, an event which reinforced the artist's yearning to understand her mother's resignation to a life without choice. This questioning is exemplified in the work Questioning Gaze which is inscribed, "I rested my questioning gaze upon my mother's eyes''. It is this questioning gaze, and the unhappiness she found in her mother, that fuel the artist's exploration and inspired her to challenge existing notions of gender, body politics and power relations...' Beyond this, the artist believes that women themselves reinforce their subsidiary status in society, through their acquiescence with patriarchy, an issue her work also addresses.