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The Libido Wears a
Blue Tuxedo
2009
Video component, 3:46 |
Courting rituals and the trappings of romance reflect the competence with which a society controls its raw sexual urges. Valentine’s Day is the annual audit of the program.
This installation is an allegorical first date in which cultural tropes and clichés have subsumed honest human sentiment. Here, love is an apparition fluxing between pretty and grotesque, innocent and obscene, silly and creepy.
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