Concealed and Revealed
These pieces, drawn from five different series, each engage visually with feminist discourse on the disciplining of the female body. Frequently constrained and regulated by social norms, they picture how women’s bodily comportment becomes impressed with forms of femininity. Using my own body to photograph, direct and edit from both sides of the camera, I am also exploring how female embodiment challenges this appropriately socialised body.
These figures move between different gendered surfaces within the domestic and the erotic, as they are adorned, torn, measured, squashed, covered, and uncovered. They are sometimes hiding, sometimes caught, sometimes escaping. Each tries to portray ways in which women are forced to conceal and disguise under the gaze of others, and yet each one also attempts to deny any conventional fixed notions of pleasure.
These pieces featured in Square Mag, Spring 2021
These figures move between different gendered surfaces within the domestic and the erotic, as they are adorned, torn, measured, squashed, covered, and uncovered. They are sometimes hiding, sometimes caught, sometimes escaping. Each tries to portray ways in which women are forced to conceal and disguise under the gaze of others, and yet each one also attempts to deny any conventional fixed notions of pleasure.
These pieces featured in Square Mag, Spring 2021
