A Kidnaper/I Have Been Abandoned by the World

These two panels were key elements in the installation "La Donna Delinquenta" in the Corona Theatre building in Montreal, which had been closed for twenty years prior to Fleming and Lapointe's intervention. In the theatre, the artists created their own spectacle criticizing nineteenth-century theories of female criminality. The poster-like "A Kidnaper" represents the wild, abandoned landscape symbolizing the psychic state of the play's anti-heroine; while the backdrop "I Have Been Abandoned by the World" presents the kidnapper in her jail clothing, accompanied by implements for measuring her deviance. The elusive object of her desire reclines in the background.