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Nina Levitt Video Installations
Duet
(1997-1999)

Documentation Quicktime 2:30 minutes

An installation about women who, for various social and/or economic reasons, lived their lives disguised as men. Those who assume the clothing, gestures, environments and privileges of men are known as “passing” women. Although many passing women succeed in living and dying with their biological sex undetected, the stories recounted in Duet are of women whose passing was discovered after they had died. The six women honored in this work lived from the turn-of-the-century to the mid 1990’s. Dimensions of Projection: approx. 7' x 9'.

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