Single channel digital video
Duration: 03:17

In Hot Not, the artist, dressed in a gym outfit with bare face and unkempt hair, dances and poses in front of the window of her suburban house whilst mouthing selected lines from the recent Pussycat Dolls’ pop song ‘Don’tcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me’. Initially displaying all the confidence of an amateur aspirant, there comes a moment when the excruciatingly self-critical realisation hits her that she is not, in fact, ‘hot’ like a Pussycat Doll and far from believing that ‘you’ would wish your girlfriend was hot like ‘me’, she is full of self-disgust and disappointment at her far from music-video-ready body. The scene fades to black as she slumps closer to the window, her body engulfing the screen, allowing the reflection of the video camera to appear against it in the grubby windowpane.

The work operates as a critique of female representation and objectification in current popular culture, revealing a psychological battle with self-reflection.