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Lissa Wilson-Aguilar's contribution speaks to the emergence of sexual roles and their defining
role in gendered behaviors. In a quite disturbing tableaux-like environment, a figure of a
pre-adolescent girl, rendered in a grotesque fashion suggesting the "formless" attitudes
associated with childhood, is facing into a corner. Drawn across the walls that she is turned
away from are colorful representations of adult female forms engaged in auto-erotic postures.
Cornered, the figure is shamed for being the plausible culprit of the drawings, putting the
viewer's empathy or lack there of for the figure in the role of questioning the source as well
as interpreting the effect these images will have on the "lifeless" body of this problematized
representation of childhood. |
