{"id":240,"date":"2020-06-04T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T19:40:52","slug":"metamorphosis-gender-identity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/metamorphosis-gender-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"METAMORPHOSIS: GENDER &amp; IDENTITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Metamorphosis: Gender &amp; Identity<\/em> was created in Siena, Italy at the Siena Art Institute. This installation took place inside a nondescript closet in one of the hallways of the school. I chose this specific site in reference to the historic metaphor of the closet for LGBTQ+ oppression. Inside this closet I used recycled mirror shards, paint, creative writing, fabric, lighting, and sound to convey the theme of invisible gender identities in Italian culture, along with a personal reflection of my experience as a genderqueer person within that space. In transforming this closet, I created a space for those societal issues to have a moment of visibility, and created an environment that facilitated conversations on this topic between myself and native Sienese community members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;242&#8242;]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2019\/12\/IMG_6698-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"81\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2019\/12\/IMG_6698.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/installations__trashed\/img_6698\/\" 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(max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2019\/10\/IMG_6700-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2019\/10\/IMG_6700.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/portfolio\/img_6700\/\" class=\"wp-image-5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2019\/10\/IMG_6700-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2019\/10\/IMG_6700-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/603\/2019\/10\/IMG_6700-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/installation-sculpture\/\">BACK TO INSTALLATION\/SCULPTURE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metamorphosis: Gender &amp; Identity was created in Siena, Italy at the Siena Art Institute. This installation took place inside a nondescript closet in one of the hallways of the school. I chose this specific site in reference to the historic metaphor of the closet for LGBTQ+ oppression. Inside this closet I used recycled mirror shards, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/metamorphosis-gender-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;METAMORPHOSIS: GENDER &amp; IDENTITY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":5,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/laurenferrarastudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}