Be Fu**ing Perfect: An archive of enhancement practices in Portugal

Abstract

this documentary is a short compendium of a vast investigation conducted in the Lisbon Grand Area during the years of Covid about body modification practices, enhancement of beauty and construction of aesthetics in modern Western society. The author likes to think of it as a canva opened by a cut by Lucio Fontana: a wild unexpected gush of red lipstick on a pristine white washed sheet of paper which opens the door to another dimension which has been silenced and now wants to scream its opinion to the top of its lungs. Personal trainers, poets, professors, tattoo and make-up artists are just a few of the voices which will open the pandora box on how heinous the social pressure about «being perfect» has been built and is perpetrated nowadays.