Man And Woman, ink drawing on wall, 2009
Gender Check, MUMOK, Wienna, Austria

The Young Ladies that were part of my broader Zvezda and Odeon project were selected for the Gender Check group exhibition at MuMoK in Vienna. When I attempted to draw Zvezda and the other two young ladies they turned out quite differently than those from 1994. I felt as though the figures in the drawing were resisting me and were saying that they had changed in the last 15 years and that there was no way back. So I went with my gut feeling and drew a present-day man and woman. Zvezda and Odeon have changed. They no longer wear silly glasses and they look better and smarter. If earlier my story featured them as stereotypical representatives of their genders, they now became a more realistic man and woman, who increasingly resemble each other and can interchangeably appear in either a male or female role.