Me and James Bond, 2005

For Me and James Bond, still images were appropriated from the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love, depicting the dapper British spy and the various women with whom he associates in the film, which was shot on location in Istanbul, Turkey. Wiggins injects herself into the Bond narrative by inserting images of herself, an older woman in a blue scarf, beside images of the young actress in the film who is similarly dressed. Both images were shot on the Bosporus Strait. The artist and the movie star shift their gazes left and right and up and down, scanning the narrative montage that the still movie images create. The older woman looks up toward the movie star and down toward a belly dancer, a languorous Turkish mistress in an orange dress. She gazes toward James Bond kissing the Russian spy. Wiggins, as subject, assumes a voyeuristic perspective on this sexy, chauvinistic film; at the same time, she (the older woman in the blue scarf) also assumes control over the points of view of the women (and men) in the film.