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Work Type:video
Date of work:1992
Materials:medium: 16mm film

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:women, horror, B-movie
Technique:video
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
‘As every Surrealist knew, the praying mantis eats her mate immediately after or even during intercourse. In “She-Mantis”, Martine Coker parodies the B-movie by showing beautiful women cramming raw flesh into their mouths while male patients cower in terror. Can “low” artforms be recouped? Coker's is an attempt to make “serious” horror.’
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Source:Morgan, S., “BT New Contemporaries”, exhibition catalogue, 1993
Date of source:1993