Sirens

In the summer of 2004, Monica showed Sirens in which she worked with circular fragments of appropriated 20th century Kodachrome transparencies. Monica chose to recontextualize the images for 21st century viewers, appropriating them in order to transfer and shift them from a male gaze to a female one. The words of the Vietnamese poet and concubine Ho Xuan Huong filtered through the exhibition space on a sound loop. The poems Monica chose are rich with sexual undertones and double entendre that reinforce and parallel the visual imagery of the work.