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The Biography of Zoe Stillpass
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In 2004, artist Aleksandra Mir visited the Cincinnati home of collectors Andy and Karen Stillpass in a not so thinly veiled attempt to learn more about their twenty-year old daughter, Zoe. Through an extensive interview and unprecedented access to an archive of old documents, baby pictures and childhood ephemera, Mir crafts a portrait of Zoe through a lens distorted by “parental dreams and desires, the factual creation of their daughter, and the circumstances of her life” all without her concrete presence. The result is an eerie, unadulterated look at a child predisposed to grow into an image perhaps not completely her own.