During the class trip to the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum, I saw many fascinating works of art and film. One of the films that stood out to me the most was Tala Madani’s Sex Ed By God. I found this short piece really interesting. Tala Madani is an Iranian artist, who had multiple pieces of art at the Whitney Biennial, mostly focusing on genitalia. Sex Ed By God is a 2 minute animation which features a young looking female who is being projected on a screen while a pair of lips “God” ramble about sex, while two other men in the room look on, one older one seems to be a child. The pair of floating lips speaks in a heavy breathed voice and seems to be speaking about advice of stimulating a woman rather than typical sex ed classes.The men are staring at this woman on a screen, the words coming out of the lips are at times gibberish and not entirely clear

The part I like the best is how these two men and God are looking and talking about this female who is being projected on the screen, but then she reaches out of the screen and smooches the three of them in her hand and put them inside of her vagina. To me it is the moment when the woman takes control and power over the men who have been watching her this whole time. She then erases the screen she is on, taking herself off the screen and no longer an object to watch.