ELIZABETH WINNEL
Connect Savannah
February 2019
By Rachael Flora
WHAT DO rosy-pink lips and advertisements about masculinity have to do with each other? Absolutely everything, and Elizabeth Winnel could talk about it for hours. Winnel’s body of work primarily consists of lips, sometimes posed slightly open, sometimes biting flowers. While you might assume the lips were of a female model, you’d be wrong—the lips belong to Winnel’s best friend, David, and to her husband, Martin. Winnel challenges the typical gender assignments we give, both knowingly and unknowingly, and the role certain advertisements play in that work.