In her first solo exhibition, The Incorrigible Giantess, Amanda Ba offers us passage into the surreal and mythological world of the Giantess. These Giantesses are imposing in presence and blasé in their nakedness—their nudity is presented as simply matter of fact, and possesses nothing spectacular by way of ontology. Using the image of the Giantess, Ba wields a politics of counter-representation, …
In her first solo exhibition, The Incorrigible Giantess, Amanda Ba offers us passage into the surreal and mythological world of the Giantess. These Giantesses are imposing in presence and blasé in their nakedness—their nudity is presented as simply matter of fact, and possesses nothing spectacular by way of ontology. Using the image of the Giantess, Ba wields a politics of counter-representation, one that refuses the Western-imposed ornamentalism of ‘orientalized’ femininity, and seeks to find new grounds through queer, postcolonial and post-human thought, destabilizing the figure of the …
