1724 Birth Of The Cunt

A provocative and characteristically maximalist installation by Jason Rhoades, this work continues the artist's ongoing exploration of language, sexuality, and cultural taboo through his signature accumulation of text, neon, and found objects. The piece fits within Rhoades' broader "CHERRY Makita" and "PeaRoeFoam" series, in which he compiled hundreds of vernacular and cross-cultural terms for female genitalia as a means of interrogating censorship, desire, and the politics of naming. Dense with associative meaning and visual excess, the work reflects Rhoades' belief that language itself is a loaded, unstable, and deeply social material.