Bobbie Mueller’s BOYS DON’T CRY is a venture into the mind of ‘the other’, a scientific excursus researching the species ‘Man’. She approaches her subjects wherever people interact with each other or themselves – the bedroom, the bar, the mirror. Mueller never loses empathy as the young men in conversation about love, sex, their body-images, are former partners, affairs, lovers. Her imagery is consciously constructed, jarring, and referential, creating a setting so obviously artificial that it permits vast spaces for intersubjective sincerity.