Bad luck if your husband had short fingers, diminutive palms. On another: two opera singers, one male, one female, mouths open, chests heaving. In the eighteenth century, the ideal wife’s waist was no larger than the span of her husband’s hand.
On one screen: a ballerina in pink and her male partner in black, his hands firm about her waist.
MIRANDA POPKEY TOPICS OF CONVERSATION SERIES
In one room of the museum a series of screens had been mounted. Just a narcissistic bitch, isn’t she? Not that I believe this. The woman as object is art and the man who objectifies her an artist. I never wore the ring.” Rather: he had broken up with her.ĭid I, do I, admire the artist for claiming her pain is worthy of art, or did I, do I, find the act of aestheticizing also trivializing, or in fact is that feeling, that impulse to call the art trivializing, a way to conceal the true feeling, guiltier, that her art is vulgar, that it is indulgent, because she is her own subject? Because she elevates herself as subject? The woman as object is less vulgar than the woman as subject. She had broken up with her boyfriend and called me and I had driven down. She kept her sunglasses on when we went inside. I drove down the coast to the museum and at the museum, I met my friend. She makes, in her art, a spectacle of herself. By female pain I mean female subjugation and exploitation, and humiliation. This Swedish video artist: her work is largely about female pain. The museum was hosting a Swedish video artist’s first American exhibition.
Louis and has written for The New Republic, The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog, the Paris Review Daily, The Hairpin, The Awl, GQ, and New York magazine’s The Cut. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Composed almost exclusively of conversations between women, Popkey’s debut novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt–written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. The following is from Miranda Popkey's Topics of Conversation.
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