Top Girls Josephine Vase by Maria Volokhova

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Gern Møbelfabrik with the gathering in Caryl Churchill’s play from which this project takes its name, the women present at … more Gern Møbelfabrik with the gathering in Caryl Churchill’s play from which this project takes its name, the women present at this party hail from different times and spaces. They are important characters and immediately recognizable personalities: Josephine, The Infanta, Cinderella, Princesses Luigie and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Hera and Twiggy. Most interesting here is that they are recognizable even without their faces. These figures present strong feminine symbols by not portraying breasts, hands, hair, and faces. TOPGIRLS are not sex symbols to be devoured by the gaze.

These sensual figures are also vases, and thus flowers, another feminine symbol, can beautifully function as their faces less