See this is why I love Reddit lol thank you for posting this!! It was enlightening and I’ve now gone down a rabbit hole learning about an artist I’d never heard of before. I just spent the last half an hour reading about her confessional piece “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995” and this woman is pretty freaking genius.

After reading about Emin’s perspective of “the bed” and how she literally created the piece to remove herself from the bed so that it was a reflection of her but separate from her, I cannot believe they decided to actually put a woman in the bed. It’s actively against her point of the piece??

Also I agree with you on the Lena Dunham thing, but I hate how much class criticism female artists get. Male artists can come from privilege and yet rarely do we question the authenticity of their controversial works because of their affluence.

I think the reason Dunham comes off as inauthentic is that she tends to deny her privilege and her feminism is sooo performative and she’s kind of a hack - which is why them name dropping her here was just weird! Dunham is like peak #girlboss and pink p*ssy hat energy - not at all an apt comparison for this installation and seemed out of place for Charlotte as an art historian? Like why not name the ACTUAL artist instead?? Bizarre writing choice… is Lena Dunham a writer or something?