MOLLY SEGAL

As a way to confront, complicate, and question my belief that most men I know want to have sex with me, I invite male friends and acquaintances into my studio to sit for a portrait.  Portraits are intimate. They involve prolonged eye contact in a closed space with lots of looking- things I have avoided in the past so as not to “give the wrong impression.”  By beginning each sitting with an explicit discussion of the premise, both sitter and artist are forced to confront our own assumptions, desires, and fears.  All participants, including myself, are implicated in the results.