Drawing the Line

Description:

Drawing the Line was an interactive photography exhibition by Kiss & Tell that examined issues of censorship and sexuality. The installation featured 100 black-and-white photographs by Susan Stewart depicting Persimmon Blackbridge and Lizard Jones engaging in lesbian sex. The photographs were arranged in a line in the gallery from least to most explicit. 

Viewers were invited to comment on the images and “draw the line” where they felt their personal limits regarding sexual imagery lay. Female-identified viewers were encouraged to write their comments directly on the gallery walls, while male-identified viewers were asked to record their responses in an accompanying book placed near the end of the series—a gesture acknowledging the historically different relationships that men and women have had to sexually explicit images.