Venus de Milo, 1991 This is a 76 inch tall stack of cardboard silhouettes of the famous classical Greek sculpture. It reexamines the notion of the ideal of feminine beauty and its representation in the history of sculpture. More specifically, it creates verticality through horizontality and suggests the body as a surface without interiority. I wanted to assert the discursive nature of bodies and emphasize the surface of sculpture. An important displacement in Venus is the tipping of the sculpture on its side. Venus horizontalized is now a nude that is lying down. By simply lying on the floor Venus engages in a dialogue with minimalism, which takes the floor very seriously.