Critical Writing Index

Sadie Benning

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Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000, pp. 56-57

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000

Benning's experimental live-action cartoon is a film about Taylor's (a twelve year old girl's) coming of age and facing questions about gender and sexual identity. The actors wear two-dimensional masks that are at the the same time inhibiting and expanding the potential for identification.

ITEM 2000.092 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

A new YearSadie Benning

Flat Is BeautifulSadie Benning