Exit Paradise—Eve, Salome and Judith 2021 - 2023

Wiggins performs as Eve wrapped in a golden snakeskin dress under a Quince tree; as the biblical princess Salome, who danced before King Herod, going for a drive at sunset; and as the biblical heroine Judith with a sword in one hand and the head of Holofernes in the other. These works, all created in collaboration with photographer Luís Branco, were a part of the exhibit Exit Paradise at Seidel City in Boulder, Colorado. Wiggins and Branco’s photographs reinterpret the fictions and histories of these women, always in critical dialogue with the misogynistic viewpoints that have been imprinted upon them. Wiggins and Robert Kittila made a short video explaining the exhibition and the artists’ process and intentions in creating this work.  

(photography by Luís Branco, video and installation shots by Robert Kittila)