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The absurdities of gender performance are laid bare by British artist Sarah Lucas with her comically contorted take on the reclining nude. A continuation of her ‘Bunny’ series begun in 1997 – in which recumbent dolls with limp, splayed limbs of stuffed hosiery gave a darkly surreal satire of sexual objectification – recent sculptures such as the Converse-clad Peeping Thomasina (left) are promoted
