Evil girl: Sexuality in western art

“Evil Girl: sexuality in western art” is a part of the Evil Girl Project in which Evil Girls investigate their relation toward their own sexuality, and representations of sexuality through the history of art. Starting point for this work was the book titled “Sexuality in western art”, written by Edward Lucie Smith. This book was chosen as a typical art historians book on that topic, well distributed and well marketed, inexpensive and populist, one of the non-pretentious proponents of the dominant male western gaze on human sexuality.

The visuals the book were transformed by the infusion of the Evil Girl characters into the compositional setting that was usually left intact. Therefore, we would see the Evil Girls instead of the original characters in it. Some of the pages were repeated in drawing, while the others manipulated in Photoshop, and printed in black or white, in bad quality

The main point was not to illustrate some particular theoretical or political attitude on female sexuality. Evil Girls attacked this book more just to make a mass. By presenting their naked bodies for the first time in the project, they just wanted to experiment with their own body image as a basis for canonical in representing human sexuality.

Evil Girl: Sexuality in Western Art, Gallery of the Belgrade Youth Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia_2007