F*CK U! In The Most Loving Way

Emma Sulkowicz
Bed
From Series, Newspaper Bodies
(Look Mom, I’m On the Front Page!)
Silkscreen on inkjet print
(Limited edition of 8 per print, 8 sets of 4 prints)
25.75 x 24 inches
2015
Newspaper Bodies (Look, Mom. I'm On The Front Page!) is a four-part silkscreen series. Parts 1 and
2, Bed and You can take my story, but my body won't be overwritten, feature a reproduction of a New
York Times article from May 4, 2014. This was the first front page NYT article to report on the story of
Sulkowicz's alleged attack and Columbia University's adjudication of her complaint. Parts 2 and 3, Fuck
Her. Believe This. and Attack, feature a reproduction of the second front page New York Times article,
from December 22, 2014, which presents the accused's version of the story. The silkscreened images
reflect upon and call the papers' textual depictions into question, reminding us of the ubiquity of bias.
The overlaid silkscreen images, like the reporting they satirize, depict their subjects as
caricatures, mirroring the flattened representations that circulate in the media.
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