Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

By viewing the body through art, art strips bare the body, segmenting and analyzing the body. She shows that our conception of femininity is known through this medium where its depiction of the body is desensualized, questioning the function of the body.  Hannah Wilke's piece lays bare the use of female body as a structured role and problematizes the body's existence through the expressionless face and the experimentive movements.  By showing the same concept twice, only using different camera angles and focusing more on the face instead of the body, she draws on different conceptions of the body and its use.