The series explores the boundaries of what is perceived as the ‘normal’ body by engaging with notions of bodily ‘abnormality’ and ‘deviance’.

As Garland-Thompson (2014) observes, the ‘deviant’ body can be understood as “a culturally fabricated narrative of the body, similar to what we understand as the fictions of race and gender.” Like these categories, the forms of behaviour allowed to ‘deviant’ bodies — and thus to ‘deviant’ subjects — are narrowly defined. They are compelled to perform within predetermined scripts that, in turn, sustain the idea of the ‘normal’ body.