linder sterling

COME FIND ME WHEN I’M HIDING

Linder Sterling’s work operates as a radical feminist deconstruction of glamour and its mechanisms of seduction. Using fragments from fashion magazines, advertising, and pornography, she appropriates images of women’s bodies and faces, and overlays them with food, birds, mouths, flowers, or everyday objects. These intrusions rupture the smooth surface of glamour, exposing its violence and ideological construction.

Rather than rejecting seduction outright, Linder weaponizes it. By obscuring faces, replacing eyes with mouths, or grafting domestic and organic elements onto female bodies, her collages dismantle the fantasy of feminine seduction and directly confront the objectification of women in mass media.

Emerging in the late 1970s from Manchester’s punk scene, Linder’s feminism is inseparable from rebellion and irony. Her work denies the stereotype of a woman as a passive muse and polished icon, proposing instead a fractured hybrid of femininity — simultaneously erotic, antagonistic, and political….