https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/6a89e4385aace09290f6d655dbd7dba6.jpg e738b66ed10334d8f2c47aa9461165d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Remi White: Contortion Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of boy bent backwards over a chair. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/09759ba8e9e74f32caabd0c9aaf0b9d8.jpg ab92be2f66dd324e3e69ab17ab34da72 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Remi White: Contortion Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of a headless body with its feet on the steering wheel of the car, its stomach on the seat of the car. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/cf53158660fbe372ac595b62edc2655f.jpg 7dfb360ce8a728800ab9115a84c743a4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Remi White: Contortion Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of bloody legs standing in a blue kiddie pool at dusk. https://library.missouri.edu/exhibits/files/original/c72c02be713e760120db2efbacdc53f4.jpg 4eec0194e85d79b57ef09e7007242f07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Remi White: Contortion Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. Color photograph of two legs sticking out of a washing machine. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contortion Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource White, Remi Abstract A summary of the resource. Contortion explores the tension of projecting the authentic self while navigating the expectation to conform. Growing up, one must learn to perform in line with socially ratified ways to behave. Doing so can feel like denying the child self. Using my body, I perform absurd contortions related to mundane adult tasks. The choreographed postures in the photographs touch on the impossibility of fitting in and how much someone changes to do so. Being gay further heightens this feeling. I’m expected to perform to suit the expectations with others with what are at times conflicting codes of conduct. My work attempts to reflect this state of flux and mourning of youth humorously, expressed in moments of exertion, defiance, failure, and acceptance. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2026