As with her previous work, Collier Schorr continues her investigation of sexual and social stereotypes. In her upcoming exhibition she examines the origins of these stereotypes with a series of wall-sculptures using personal and found baby clothes. Dipped in plaster and white-washed, they are frozen and isolated like a physical shadow of the child that once wore them.
On the inside of the clothes Schorr has added a series of disjointed, hand-written notes. Their content and multiple authorship are ambiguous; ranging from the parental, to the aggressive, to overtly sexual. However, the gender nouns, like the sexuality, are displaced, confusing our notions of to whom these voices are directed. These seemingly auto-biographical notations, working in opposition to the clothing that contain them, produce an unsettling critique of the earliest moments of gender construction.