See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

2021

Paper, cardboard, yarn, plushie eyes, human hair, dryer lint, wool, pearl, toilet paper, spandex, batting, glue, wire and fibre fill

19cm x 44cm x 13cm, 14cm x 10cm x 39cm, 27cm x 21cm x 26cm

The process of paper mache embodies my belief that the human experience is fragmented and discontinuous.I removed all the penises from the hentai manga I used, not to perform castration, but to shift the lens to focus on female erotic experiences towards jouissance. On the one hand, patriarchy renders women as evil and abject, on the other hand, femininity is synonymous with ideas of beauty and mystery. In a hypersexualized society, is it possible for women to escape the fate of being a vessel of eros, and resist the male gaze with the vaginal gaze? “Woman does not exist,” because we are fluid and refuse to be defined. To become a woman is to constantly tear up and reconstruct herself, to rebuke the neoliberal temptation of self-ownership.

On the one hand, patriarchy renders women as evil and abject, on the other hand, femininity is synonymous with ideas of beauty and mystery. In a hypersexualized society, is it possible for women to escape the fate of being a vessel of eros, and resist the male gaze with the vaginal gaze?

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