hand her the knife blade first

The collection, hand her the knife blade first, explores how girls’s ache is neglected and aestheticized, and the way patriarchal programs coupled with gendered stereotypes perpetuate the management of girls.

The collection, hand her the knife blade first, explores how girls’s ache is neglected and aestheticized, and the way patriarchal programs coupled with gendered stereotypes perpetuate the management of girls. Exploring our bodies and pictures is my approach of interrogating how the historic oppression of girls is cyclical. I’m significantly all for girls’s our bodies as a website of battle, management, and resilience. I make the most of methods that really feel repetitive or obsessive as a result of they mirror the invisible labor oppressed folks exert of their ongoing efforts to withstand programs designed to silence them. My course of entails chopping, layering, staging, and weaving discovered pictures, referencing conventional girls’s labor whereas recontextualizing the pictures via a up to date feminist lens. I take advantage of discovered photographs from medical textbooks and on-line archives, assembling them into new compositions that query how cultural norms have been used to manage and erase girls’s autonomy. My work challenges dominant narratives surrounding the physique, authorship, and gender. My work pertains to the exhibition theme as a result of in it the feminine physique itself turns into an edge, a website the place management and patriarchy converge, and the place resistance persists as an ongoing, unfinished labor.