Watch Out – I’m Out To Get You, 2008
Title
Watch Out – I’m Out To Get You
Year
2008
Type
Exhibition
Curator
Katarina Sjögren, Jun-Hi Wennergren Nordling
At
Crystal Palace
Location
Stockholm

The exhibition Watch Out – I'm Out to Get You has a title inspired by the often obvious anger in feminist art of the 60s and 70s. Åsa Jungnelius presents the female genitalia in a new way, The Monster Cunt. The starting point for Åsa Jungnelius is the likeness to genitalia that monsters and aliens in horror movies often have and in genitalia as a common aesthetic reference to evoke fear. The Monster Cunt is an abstract Vagina Dentata that devours the phallocentric art room.

The Monster Cunt takes over the room from above, the glass objects that make up the mobile floats threateningly above the visitor who has to surrender to the dominance of the room. Chains and hooks penetrate the sexual parts and create a bond of fetish between body and object.

In the work “the Vagina” made 2004 Åsa Jungnelius showed and elevated the otherwise almost totally invisible female genitalia, in mold-blown glass and mirroring and with modernist sculptural shapes. The sex of a woman next to all the potent phalluses. The penises were made cute, decorated with bows or turned into lipsticks. Åsa overflowed the male attributes with symbols of femininity and elevated the vagina to an ideal shape but with the effect of censuring the anger. An anger created by being made invisible.

There is still a vast amount of penises in exhibitions while the woman´s sex still is not represented, too historically and culturally affiliated with shame or regarded too disgusting to be on display. Watch Out – I'm Out to Get You is the birth of the Monster Cunt, a sex ready to take over and demand submission.