Karen Hsiao: Rubber Duck

Karen Hsiao uses a simple object, the rubber duck, and a single location, the bathtub, to examine and expose various stages of the human life cycle. From birth to death, through good times and bad, in sickness and in health, the human condition is a series of thematic episodes that Karen Hsiao presents as simple yet shocking portraits of unusual bathing beauties who represent our inner selves. Children, monsters, lovers, fighters, victims, and caregivers are all represented by charismatic models (some famous fetish models) in the tub with their rubber ducks. Dirty, insightful fun.