Interiority, Metamorphosis, and Simone Leigh’s Hybrid Cowries

By way of an analysis of Simone Leigh’s <i>You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been</i> (2017), this essay argues that by hybridizing the cowrie and watermelon, Leigh creates her own natural history of these biological forms that disorders the rigid taxonomic classification on which syste...

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Published in:Arts
Main Author: Tiffany Johnson Bidler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-03-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/2/56