I TRY SO HARD

I Try so hard explores the smile.Corinne Mariaud films in a fixed shot young women smiling for one to two minutes. This duration, difficult to maintain, is getting close to a performance. The face tenses, tears appear sometimes.The suffering is perceptible when the photo is taken: gradually, the beautiful smile freezes and loses its meaning. There is no sound, it's silent. What emerges is a tension, a pain which contrasts with the sobriety and smooth appearance of the image.

This all-purpose, smooth and standardized smile is one of the “figures imposed” on women. The woman must remain discreet, not talk too much, too loud, don't show any anger,The smile becomes a mark of social domination.