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Pussy, King of the Pirates

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maccarone- (13 of 31).jpg ![maccarone- (13 of 31).jpg](https://assets-global.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472b2937f34ac9eb12909b3_maccarone-%2B%252813%2Bof%2B31%2529.png) Maccarone LA is a 50,000-square-foot complex that is intent on nurturing and cultivating it’s extensive roster. Their latest exhibition _Pussy, King of the Pirates_ brings together 20 non-male artists who engage directly with the body as a medium to question itself and the identity politics surrounding it. Objectification is questioned here. The works serve as a reclamation of the female figure through the lens of the non-male gaze.  maccarone- (2 of 31).jpg ![maccarone- (2 of 31).jpg](https://assets-global.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472b2937f34ac9eb12909ab_maccarone-%2B%25282%2Bof%2B31%2529.jpeg) The exhibition, _Pussy, King of the Pirates_ gains its title from Kathy Acker’s eponymous novel, which explores anti-patriarchal themes. Acker confronts notions of a double standard, wherein a man reimagines himself in a common narrative and it is deemed as metaphysical or innovative while a non-male or female doing the same is reduced to plagiarism or trite. ![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472b2937f34ac9eb12909af_image-asset.jpeg) Maccarone LA expounds upon these ideas in the presented works. The artists use the body as both subject and object, process and medium, abstraction and representation in a setting that traditionally diminishes non-female forms into objects. The shared experience of “otherness” is palpable. The install allows the viewer to work through the space, creating and catching glimpses of narrative: strangers, former lovers, new intermingling forms through a change of angle. The works transcend singularity becoming a body of work that share a common bodily ground in honoring womanhood and the non-male form. maccarone- (5 of 31).jpg ![maccarone- (5 of 31).jpg](https://assets-global.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472b2937f34ac9eb12909a7_maccarone-%2B%25285%2Bof%2B31%2529.jpeg) _Pussy, King of the Pirates_ will be on display at Maccarone Los Angeles, 300 South Mission Road until September 29th, 2018. * * * Photographed by Jake Harrison