Brooks challenges the concept of what Betterton considers “the active desiring agents” by fashioning the female body for the female desire.

Bourgeois uses her own lived experience of childhood trauma to reimagine and witness the literal ‘destruction of her father’.

My Bed appears as a visual metaphor for Emin’s life at the time which has been publicly linked to alcohol consumption and drunken behaviour.

Emin’s Tent illuminates the anxieties endured in contemporary Western society surrounding the sexually promiscuous female body.

The risk of shame is not that it affects the body of the ashamed, but rather the idea that shame reflects back at (and onto) the viewer.