Equal Opportunity

 

How would the politics of pregnancy be different if both men and women could become pregnant?

Thanks to the help of extraordinary make-up, careful costume choices, and a natural predilection for performing different roles, the Casilio sisters are masters of bending gender. It is safe to say that the lines between male and female are as fluid in TRIIIBE images as they are in real life. That fluidity is on full view in Equal Opportunity – a lenticular print that vibrates between two images as viewers pass by. In the first image, Sara, Kelly, and Alicia portray pregnant young women with wildly different looks. In the second, they transform into their male counterparts – if those men could be with child. Like all TRIIIBE images, Equal Opportunity elicits introspection about knee-jerk first-impressions, social and cultural stigmas, and class and gender stereotypes. The opportunities for equality to which TRIIIBE alludes in this lenticular are many and masterful. But perhaps most pointedly, TRIIIBE asks viewers to consider how the politics of pregnancy might change if childbirth was not solely the responsibility of women.
— Fitchburg Art Museum: Former Curator Mary Tinti and Former Koch Curatorial Fellow Emily Mazzola
 

Collaborators

Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio, 
Cary Wolinsky Rae Bertellotti 
and Babs Wolinsky

 

Capture date: 2006
First finished print: 2010
Lenticular print photograph
Sizes:
21 x 28 inches
27 x 36 inches
35.5 x 47.5 inches

Diptych
Sizes:
26.25 x 35 inches
33.75 x 45 inches
42 x 55.75 inches

© Triiibe Partners 2010