VIdeo installations | 2021 - present
Our current work challenges the internalized sexism and self-limiting beliefs taught through one of society’s earliest and most insidious avenues: games. This two-part body of work borrows the language of advertising and hijacks familiar products to beat the insidious nature of misogyny at its own game.
Reimagining elements of games and play such as Perfection, Sorry, the Game of Life, and Barbie dolls, this work comments on how from an early age, women are encouraged to believe that a reductive set of pink-colored experiences is their only option for satisfaction in life. At the heart of the games examined in this body of work is the empty promise that women will win in life if they behave in a certain way or tamp down their expectations to fit a prescribed notion of a “model woman.”
Part one of this body of work presents CROTCH: Games for Everyone, a remaking of existing games created through a feminist lens and with a healthy dose of humor. Some of these games satirize popular views of women in our culture, while others promote more self-assured ways of dealing with people socially.
Part two, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, features living sculptures and video installations created from repurposed toys and game pieces. This work visualizes the crippling pressure of impossible expectations stacked upon women and the seductive nature of outside forces that promise to provide guidance at the cost of women’s independent sense of self.
Life, Single-channel video installation with audio
Tip Toe, Multi-channel video installation with audio
Perfection, Dual-channel video with audio