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DOUBLE EXPOSURES, 1987

The six steel tables of the Double Exposures Series serve as points of organization for six tableaux addressing patriarchal and gender issues.  Each of the tableau is comprised of readymade and other materials that have been selected or fabricated for symbolic content, speaking to the lives of women oppressed through low paying jobs, the demands of child rearing and the myth of the eternal feminine.  Thus, Barbie dolls have been juxtaposed with phallic screws, wire veils hung with padlocks, and C-clamps used to demonstrate the confines of the patriarchal system.

Though the titles of each of the individual pieces allude to these issues, they were developed afterwards as a means to contextualize the series as a whole.  The individual tableaux were assembled by an intuitive approach to both process and materials.  The use of metallic colours and readymade objects may suggest pop imagery, but the focus is a subjective one and the result intimate, almost an evocation of the Stations of the Cross.

Mixed media installation
Overall dimensions: 750 cm x 76 cm x 45 cm