Hello Boys (1975)

Hello Boys documents a performance at the Gallery Gerald Piltzer in Paris Seen through the glass of a large fish tank Wilke nude performs a repertoire of studied erotic gestures to the accompaniment of rock music Entrapped in her fish bowl on display behind glass she is both subject and object Suggesting the iconic female figure of a mermaid with its ambiguous implications of sexual power and powerlessness Wilke explores the representation of female sexuality and the male gaze