Sliwinska reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former Iron Curtain , such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramovic, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkácová, go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal representations of the social and cultural ‘other’, associated with visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and Medusa.