Evert Manifold. Takách uses dental mold to take an imprint of her vagina. By doing this she subverts or inverts the feminine space. She makes the negative into a positive shape, into a threatening monstrous shape. Inverting the passive into active the vessel into phallace. Making an answer to penis envy inverting the lack into an actual object, even a weapon. But the shape is still curved and organic, still feminine. The material is Bronze casting which still somehow has a feminine tactility to it and harks back to ideas of bronze busts of important men in the library. I think this is a reallly important and subtle piece of modern feminist art that really harks back to the monstrous feminine and ways of subverting power dynamics in the gaze.
