Pure Taste Indicator - Artist Page

close your legs, dear is a multimedia installation, which examines the notion of an internal gaze, or self-regulation. This is done through the depiction of the subjective experience of the pursuit of a feminine ideal and the underlying emotional disquietude that accompanies this pursuit. This body of work primarily utilizes self- portraiture through time-based moving images to examine the figurative fragmentation of the body (e.g., with reference to Lacan’s mirror stage concept) in the subject. This fragmentation of the body is also a metaphorical fragmentation of the ego, which becomes a host to obsessive, self-observation and self-regulation vis-à-vis the feminine ideal. Each moving image exhibits varying degrees of subtle motion, primarily gestures that the female subject performs in repetition, which is further looped, when projected, to reinforce the notion of incessant unease and rumination. By portraying fragments of the body of a feminine woman in conjunction with disquiet gestures, the moving images challenge traditional depictions of femininity and reframe the feminine image. Though often well intended, the saying “close your legs”, dear is the kind of subtle oppression that this body of work is engaged in conversation with.