Emiko Kasahara is one of a generation of Asian artists who advanced feminist positions in the wake of the belated recognition of women practitioners in the 1980s. During the 1990s, Kasahara’s imagery and materials played on cultural anxieties about human carnality and unfixed sexuality. This sculpture, crafted from gleaming marble the most delicate shade of pink, is based on the appearance of embryonic human genitalia at the crucial point at which sex is determined – the defining capacity for becoming either female or male, or both. Minute differences draw attention to the overt similarity of these ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ forms; the clitoral, vulval and penile appear more or less equivalent. Here, Kasahara subtly points to the tenuous foundation of the elaborate gender roles and social hierarchies that persist in contemporary culture.