1992, silkscreened cardboard dolls
in gradual shades from pink to blue.
Each doll is 50 cm long.
Sexuality like identity does not have a rigid border.
| First Lessons in Relativity by Sonja van Kerkhoff, 1992 | |||
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| So I hung these dolls high up to simulate the baby's view, mixing up the colours and the forms to present sexuality as a continuum. |  |
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Shown:
1993 Arti, Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands. 1992 Graduation Exhibition, Maastricht School of Visual Arts, Maastricht, The Netherlands. |
Related Work:
First Lessons - the video |
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These
dolls are copies of a toy someone gave me for my baby. It was a pink and
a blue doll joined at the head by string. I had never thought so many
people around me would took these 'lessons' about the separateness of
sex so deadly seriously until I had a child with an indeterminate name
and whose sex I was not willing to reveal.