SURPLUS - Ben Cain Marilyn is a two-toed sloth

Marilyn is a two-toed sloth

180 x 100 mm

explore how images of women are historically shaped by a male-dominated gaze that positions them as objects of desire

such as wave in full crest

Becky Namgauds is a choreographer

SURPLUS - Ben Cain Marilyn is a two-toed slothThese signs, and the found cardboard they're written on want a social body. They want to communicate, but not very clearly. They consider the uses of public space and want to act as a sort of social media. They refer to production, over production, and the 'too much' that is Surplus. This 'too much' sits beside but not very comfortably an irresistible drive to work, to make things and do things, all the time. These cardboard signs are conceived as a