Lesson I: Ablutions
In Lesson I: Ablutions, rehearsing 19c primers for young ladies, Rueter contemplates ways of being; how history refigures and repeats expectations of femininity; and recasts the interplay between aesthetics and virtue.
Obeyed and Admired in Spite of Her Absurdities, 91cm x 79cm, 2012
The Principles of a Pure and Correct Taste, 88cm x 100cm, 2012
For When She Does Condescend to the Splendid, Few, If Any of Us, Eclipse Her, 81cm x 64cm, 2012
A Moderate Share of Popularity, mixed media, 71cm x 102cm, 2012
What Is Now and Hath Been Formerly, 56cm x 100cm, 2012
Ephemeral Fashion and Personal Peculiarities, 67cm x 67cm, 2012
Tresses, Like the Morn, May Encumber Rather Than Adorn, 67cm x 102cm, 2012
An Admonition Against Profuse and Splendid Decorations, 65cm x 100cm, 2012
Cynthias of the Minute, 88cm x 100cm, 2012