Artist: Wilson, Martha

Over the past four decades Martha Wilson has created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae. These performances of identity and embodied subjectivity are not only a critique of female objectification and oppression in mainstream society, they also question the notion of identity as something fixed, stable and homogenous.

I Make Up the Image of My Perfection/I Make Up the Image of My Deformity

Martha Wilson (American b. 1947), "I Make Up the Image of My Perfection/I Make Up the Image of My Deformity", 2007, digital print, 12 x 12 inches, from Femfolio, portfolio of nineteen digital prints (twelve with lithograph, one with pochoir, one with hand coloring, and one with gold dusting) and one lithograph, edition of 60, published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia.