# @williamslenses on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-01-17T19:25:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WILLIAMSLENSES (@williamslenses) — https://gondola.cc/williamslenses

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The Abject Mölly | Critique 3 | “Mölly’s Room” 
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Mixed Media Installation
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This work serves as a site-specific manifestation of a space previously held only in the artist’s mind: the bedroom of Mölly. Mölly is the “mystery twin” the artist felt they integrated in the womb—the identity they would have carried if assigned female at birth. After twenty-three years of suppression, this installation acts as an externalization of that internal architecture.
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Rooted in a “messthetic” of camp, kitsch, and low-brow excess, the work rejects institutional poise to embrace the chaos of nonbinary identity. By translating this private, mental room into a physical vessel, the artist explores the relationship between drag, familial fabulation, and the body. Mölly is not just a character, but an alter ego synonymous with the self—finally released from the cracked mirror of the subconscious and invited to take over.
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Thank you to my cohort and fellow MFAs, Stamps MFA faculty/advisors, visiting critic Andrea Cardinal, Institute for Humanities artist in residence, Kaolki Nyamai for the Behind the Studios lunch/presentation, and Mölly herself who could not join us yesterday (she was in Traverse City for a bowling convention) but cleaned up her room enough for us to partake and critique it. 
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Looking forward to what is next for this project and for the final critique of year 1 of the MFA!
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Endless love,
~William 
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#mfa #drag #queerart #gradschool #assemblage
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References/Bibliography: 
-Davis, Vaginal. Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product. Curated by Jody Graf and Sheldon Gooch. MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, October 9, 2025–March 2, 2026.

-Perry, Grayson. Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. London: Vintage, 2007.

-Yore, Paul. Paul Yore: Word Made Flesh. Edited by Max Delany. Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022.

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assemblage, gradschool, mfa, drag, queerart

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