NAME: Rhett Gerard PochÃÆÃâÃâ ââ¬â¢ÃÆâ
BIRTH PLACE: New Orleans, LA
BIRTH DATE: 7.13.79
BIOGRAPHY
As heirs to the rights and privileges granted to them by their feminist foremothers and forefathers, adolescents of the ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬Åpost-post-feministÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâàgeneration appear to be rejecting these legacies in a contradictory attempt to assert their sexual freedom and equality.
As a result of this trend, many young women assume gender equality and power are to be found in the projection of a sexualized ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅfeminineÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâàidentity. The logic appears to be that young women can cultivate social and cultural power by willingly transforming themselves into objects of male desire and the male gaze. To compensate and to compete, young men are prompted to perform their own equally exaggerated, sexually aggressive, and misogynistic versions of masculinity. My work presents viewers with motifs of this contemporary phenomenon in the hope of increasing awareness of a new and potentially harmful social dynamic. I want my audience to step back and consider the scenarios I present as being emblematic of a situation that threatens the advancement of gender relations.
