The Story of I (1997)

A woman sits alone in a bare white tiled bath reading Georges Batailles Story of the Eye The bizarre events described in the text provoke a series of fantasies in which the room and its accoutrements become the stage and the woman the main player As her dreams unfold in the liquid medium of the bath she becomes the eye of the story and her own body the object of its gaze With a feminine hand THE STORY OF I plucks Batailles central metaphor from its original context and reinvents its erotic vision from the inside out The eye is the vagina seen throught he blood urine and tears it looks at itself in a mirror