Fat Batman

"Virginie Barre creates fictions which invite us into reailty, plunge us there and presents us with unusual confrontations"

I came across an artist called Virginie Barre in a magazine I was reading today and the picture of her work 'Fat Bat' had me in stitches. In her work Barre wants to give the viewer the feeling that life is sometimes tinted by fiction. Like the picture above, she'll use famous cult film icons such as Batman and places them in a scenario that would appear more real to us, blurring the line between fiction and reality and trying to think as many ways possible to link such diverse elements together.
The way she went about portraying this idea though made me laugh. Due to peoples lifestyles nowadays, an obese Batman or Spiderman would seem more real to us, as thats the kind of person we're more likely to see wondering down the street. Batman would be more believable if he ate a few more burgers.