Tag: Power Exchange Rate

Sweet Dreams are Made of This? Gender, Power, and Mythologies in Understory’s Power Exchange Rate

“I am doll eyes, doll mouth, doll legsI am doll arms, big veins, dog begsI want to be the girl with the most cakeI fake it so real, I am beyond fake.”– Courtney Love/Hole, 1994 Power Exchange Rate (PER) examines how one’s bodily intimacies and understanding are shaped, regulated, and contested within the structures of capital and power. Through a feminist […]

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Power Exchange Rate, at UNDERSTORY

Power Exchange Rate examines how intimacy is shaped, regulated, and contested within capitalist systems. Through a feminist and queer lens, this exhibition traces how personal experiences—relationships, gender, pleasure, and the body—are shaped by broader economic and political forces. It exposes intimacy as a site of exchange. These works show how systems of control dictate and commodify personal experience. The exhibition […]

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