After After Party (Resurrection)

After After Party (Resurrection)
DiaMount
100 cm x 149,5 cm

This work explores the ‘femme’ poses of the stripper/sex worker as ‘sights’ of aesthetic invention. It is interested in what lies beyond the saleable, sensationalised, femme body. The cakes embody the notion of the female (and her sexuality) as being both desirable and edible. By reducing these literal yet allegorical cakes to ‘wastelands’ and ‘bodies of ruin’, the artist (as performer) creates an alluring dystopia that challenges the gender binary and the matrixes of value it reproduces within and beyond the art world.