229:(2016), Narcissister enacts a reverse strip tease by gradually dressing herself through garments pulled out of her vagina; ultimately, dressing identical to the original Hollywood blonde bombshell. The performance illustrates many of the defining concerns of her practice, of femininity and beauty, glamour and artifice. Two years later, she had a solo art exhibit at PARTICIPANT INC. Studies for Participatory Sculptures, which involved over two hundred collages, sculptures, and a large totemic sculpture that was central to the exhibit. Through this work, the pornographic nature of them serve to both accept and refuse the historical representation of the feminine in art and pornography. For the
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