In the work 'I CANNOT HIDE MY ANGER,' Monica Bonvicini incorporates a quote by the American writer and activist Audre Lorde, referenced from her seminal keynote presentation at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference in 1981 entitled ‘The Uses of Anger’. This deliberate inclusion speaks to Bonvicini's engagement with the powerful rhetoric and ideas of significant feminist figures.

For Bonvicini, after Lorde, the concept of anger evokes a transformative response—a turning towards rather than a shying away from. She sees anger, when channeled constructively, as a catalyst for action, capable of instigating profound shifts. In this particular work, Bonvicini seems to underscore the potential of this emotion as a force for addressing societal inequalities, and asks what it means when this is enacted through art.