Exhibitionist

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Slip into this book like you would the halls of a gallery except here you're allowed to touch. Try on mask after mask; see how they nestle against your face. Here there are exhibits of your favorite artists: Frida Khalo Leonora Carrington Faith Ringgold but also whole wings of virgin queens and armless goddesses. Rooms of writers like Vita Sackville-West and actors like Tippi Hedren. Women from stories you wear close to your skin: Titania the Little Mermaid Odette from Swan Lake. Caplan expertly interrogates and subverts the concept of the fe/male gaze: who is looking who is being looked at and the potency in that relationship. You'll want to linger in this gallery even in the shadows. You'll need to return. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Dayna Patterson author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>O Lady Speak Again</em></p><p><br></p>