Their works combined site-specific histories, art historical references, female sexuality and desire, and botany, in order to critically analyze social politics.
[3] From 1981 to 1995 Lapointe and Fleming executed several site-specific installations in politically charged architectural and abandoned buildings across Montreal, New York City, and São Paulo.
[1] Addressing systemic marginalization with museum and gallery practices through a feminist lens, these installations engaged the social issues historically embedded at such sites.
(such as Casa Yaya, home of 1887 Dona Sebastiana de Mello Freire; These The Pearls, London; Duda, The Library in Emir Mohammed Park, Madrid; La Donna Deliquenta, Vaudeville Theatre, Montreal).
[9] The installation of works, drawn from images of botany, medical, art-historical sources and encyclopedias, were intended to challenge practices of museology and display methods.