Artist & Studios
Age of Innocence
"Princess” is a series of ‘self’ portraits where Moe is playfully subverting cultural ideas of childhood, gender and innocence. In some of the images, she performs well-known, historical images of the romantic child, like Joshua Reynolds’ “Age of Innocence” (circa 1788). In others, she is re-staging and subverting the excessive construction of the feminine. In “Princess Birthday,” for example, the naughty princess is sitting, legs spread, in the remains of her own pink party, face covered in a half-eaten birthday cake, her feet dirty, her smile a combination of innocence, guilt and sass. In “Princess Barbie” the princess stands bold, sporting an ironic expression, proudly displaying a shovel and a bucket that is overflowing with the remains of dismembered Barbies.
