Quasi-Oedipus Complex & Fantastical Castration
Bourgeois uses her own lived experience of childhood trauma to reimagine and witness the literal ‘destruction of her father’.
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Jul 27, 2021
The Threat of the Invisible Female Body: Self-Representation as Self-Portrait
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.
Jul 20, 2021
The Visual (and Physical) Penetration of Tracey Emin's Abject Tent
Emin’s Tent illuminates the anxieties endured in contemporary Western society surrounding the sexually promiscuous female body.
Jul 13, 2021
Performing Excess, Performing Affect
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.
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