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/sash is a layered latex and heavily ruffled sash, draped over a series of six scale model sawhorses – tools used to support the construction, in this case, of an idealized form. Its hyper-femininity, rendered in pinks and reds, in ruffled texture, and in clitoral rosette, makes the insistent visibility of /sash all the more flamboyantly vulgar. The slash of its title – the symbol of the slanted line rather than the word spelled out- operates as a reminder of the liminal space where the agents that comprise a hybrid form meet, as a reminder of the directional line drawn across the body of someone who might mark themselves as an agent to secure a right that has been denied, or identify the wearer as superlative in some performance of personal aesthetics, and as a reminder of the potential for violence at that site, a potential also articulated by the fact of the work’s position, low to the ground and composed from parts that reference not only construction site, but also litter and stretcher. |
