Sibling Rivalry

2005
Collaboration with Edward Fornieles

The screen is split into two halves, each half depicts Eloise and Edward Fornieles wrestling each other naked. Eloise is the dominant participant on the right side and her brother Edward is dominant on the left side. As adult siblings of the opposite sex, their nakedness challenges the audience into considering their own family relations. The direct sexual nature of what it is to be naked and have contact with the opposite sex goes against the system of physical contact within the family. Because we repress the desire to be animal and to act on our animal instincts, we are captivated by animal behavior in both animals and humans.