David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco 2009
When I was 14 years old, I was involved in a confirmation group. Confirmation was something that most people did where I grew up. One day we discussed good and evil. Our confirmation leaders had rented the movie "The Silence of the Lambs." When I think back now, I can’t remember the movie so well. But I remember a scene and I remember how I thought with horror "is that what my desire to be a girl is leading me to become?"

At the end of a dark room in the exhibition you could glimpse a smal "figure" that moved to Q Lazzarus song "Good Bye Horses" When you got closer you would see a copy from the room from the scene in "The Silence of the Lambs" built in a dollhouse size. In the space between the walls in the middle of the dollhouse room there was a video sequence of me where I danced as the serial killer Buffalo Bill is doing in the scene. The way, in which it was built, the room and the video sequence looked completely three-dimensional.
After about a half-minute, you became heavily blinded by a flash. Afterwards you had a still picture of me on your retina that stayed with you in about 10 minutes. The picture didn’t go away even when you closed your eyes.

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