Hysteria was considered to be a highly complex condition: It was generally thought of as a mental disorder that accompanied by physical symptoms such as fits. Historian Lisa Appignanesi writes in her 2007 book Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors that in Charcot’s France, the term “described a sexualized madness full of contradictions, one which could play all feminine parts and take on a dizzying variety of symptoms, though none of them had any real detectable base in the body.
This concept shoot of beauty behind madness revolves around the poetic expression could run free, at the expense of women who were not given a voice, but instead objectified. and this is my own approach or interpretation as an artist to show how hysteria or the state of hysteria affects women on how they think or act in a certain manner and through these photographs this is an artistic yet subtle take on a serious matter.
