 Beginning with her migration from Southern Africa to England as a dancing attraction for early 19th-century British audiences who called her the Hottentot Venus, her character remains a central figure of loving and being loved, until her untimely death in Paris in 1815.Her dead body was the subject of a pseudo-scientific autopsy that pertained to steatopygia– a condition which French naturalist, Georges Cuvier (who appears as the Baron Docteur in "Venus"), uses to his academic advantage.Parks' work is not intended to be historically accurate, but rather uses the concept of Baartman's career to explore colonization, racial objectification, and historical sexualization black female bodies; as Parks explains, "most of it's fabricated...