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Description: The dresser used in this work is a vintage piece of art deco furniture, traditionally associated with women’s appearances and the idea of femininity. The artist’s performance subverts the dresser’s connotations with the objectification of women’s appearance and the internalization of the misogynistic ‘gaze’. It reclaims the agency of the female subject by acting upon the dresser, instead of the dresser’s gaze acting upon the female subject; it goes against the expected passivity im
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