In this essay, I investigate the artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental art project, starting with an interest in how their collaboration allows them to express themselves. And how their consciousness of gender is reflected in art and whether artistic expression is critical of society. My curiosity is based upon the fact that they have been in a romantic relationship at the same time as they were creating monumental art arousing feelings in spectators around the world. My purpose is to investigate what their collaboration entails with a focus on power and gender structures.
Three of the couple's monumental art projects have been analyzed using Roland Barthes semiotic analysis, and their contents have been discussed based on Susan Sontag's and Griselda Pollock's theories on the role of gender in art. The results show that the couple's life in art and their collaboration can be seen as important and current from a gender perspective because of their gender neutral passion in life and art. Gender norms, whether feminine or masculine, and the categorizations within gender, are blurred in their artistic symbiosis.