alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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objectify - make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
The reassembly of pop signification this work hinges on (the beat, the hairstyle, the album cover, the stage move), while perhaps making Robleto's installations or Fischerspooner's performances more legible to audiences already familiar with these kinds of objectifications from music itself, does little to distinguish their art from its object, celebrating pop as an endlessly configurable set of codes with no history save nostalgia.
Shot by commercial photographer Cass Bird, the pictures are cinematic, emotionally attenuated, underwritten by the objectifications of celebrity and Samson's "loss of confidence in the real world of human contact." They are meant to create, the artist says, "a tableau vivant, devoid of real character development--which I think is the stereotypical view of the butch lesbian: Stone.