MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY

From 1972 to 1991, Eleanor Antin (born 1935) created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographic locations. The artist called this motley group which includes a deposed king, an exiled film director, ambitious b allerinas and hard-working nurses her selves. As the selves' manifestations were as diverse as their stories: some were embodied b y Antin and captured in photographs and on video/ others had paper doll surrogates/ at times their existence was known only trough t he drawing...[Read more]