THE (REAL) MEAN GIRLS (2013)
The (Real) Mean Girls explores female bullying among teenage girls. Audio interviews of women recounting their experiences being bullied as adolescents are woven together with recollections from the artist’s memory of being a bystander during a bullying incident as a teenager. The work employs visual collage—incorporating live-action re-enactments, animation, archival footage, and images from an old high school yearbook—representing that time in a girl’s adolescence when she cobbles together a cohesive identity from the many forces trying to shape her. The work addresses themes of memory, guilt, trauma, and girlhood.