Courtney May Robertson

HUNTER examines the pervasive misogynistic roles assigned to women in three key body genres in film: pornography, horror and melodrama. Together with her hyper-realistic life-sized doppelgänger in doll form, Courtney May Robertson weaves a tapestry of images in which the grotesque, (sexual) perversion and emotional excess become triumphant symbols for bodily autonomy and empowerment. The duo — one of flesh and blood, the other crafted from foam and silicone — map out the internal torments and ecstasies of an individual in conflict with an archaic society that upholds purity as a moral standard. Spectators are invited to enter the depths of a private locked room where the rigid dichotomy between repulsion and attraction dissolves.  —  Courtney May Robertson 

This show contains nudity, skits and references to bondage, domination, submission and masochism (BDSM).