How is the subject of double identity explored through visual devices in recent artwork?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Shigeyuki Kihara superimposes her face onto the male figure, doubling the use of her face for the female character in Ulugali'i Samoa: Samoan Couple.
2. Two identities merge into a single shape (artist's body plus dagger) in Ana Mendieta's Untitled, both representing the artist's life.
3. The arms and hands of a female model are superimposed on the cross-dressed male subject in Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy.
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