The Word ‘Woman’ Recorded Through Five Movements of Lipstick, 1992

This piece addresses the tension between body, language, and representation. Here "kissing lips" become an act of language and self-affirmation. This piece interrogates whether a woman exists within or outside the constraints of language and representation in a patriarchal culture.

Photo credit: Juan Castaño-Márquez

Mixed Media: lipstick, rice paper, plexiglas, light.

Size: 26.5 L X 8.5 W x 0.25 D IN.