Installation
In her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa", Hélène Cixous asserts the significance of women writing women. She says, “writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it.” Women are not encouraged to write, to make art, because it is assumed that only men possess “genius.” Women are taught to feel shame, to be modest, to give up their bodies. Medusa is recontextualized in this work as a woman whose body was appropriated. She is not a monster as history has painted her, but “she’s beautiful and she’s laughing.” Women must represent women.
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