I am a Stinking Dead Cronut

'I am a Stinking Dead Cronut' is one in a folio of new works by Clunie Reid presented in Photoworks Annual Issue 22, with an accompanying essay by Alice Butler.

Butler writes:

"In another image, the artist appears to be playing on the girlish confession that is leaking all over
the internet’s blogs and social media, as Reid plagiarises and writes, in defiantly analogue
typography: ‘My self is a stinking dead cronut’. An image of this ‘postmodern’ pastry encrusted
with pink heart emojis makes a jokily abject and vulvic logo out of the confession. As in her
previous work, such as Banal Actual (2011) or It’s Time for Bed Cassiopeia (2009), in this new body
of work, Reid is commenting—through appropriation and performance—on the rehearsed and
predictable femininity that defines the language and image of female subjectivity across digital
and media spaces."

Alice Butler, 'scrolling the banal babe, in the work of Clunie Reid' In: Photoworks Annual Issue 22: Women, Photoworks, Brighton, November 2015, pp. 96-107.

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