Location: Savannah, GA, USA
Medium: Sculpture, Painting
Contact: admin@fuguegallery.com
Permeating a paradoxical allure with materials like latex and hair, my work serves as a surrogate for the body and the afflictions of bodily containment. I wrestle in the goo of abjection, subverting the marginalizing nature of disgust. Bodies here are unstable and boundary-less; biologically synthetic mutants that tamper with tactile relationships, promoting rapid aging, discoloration, and festering. I work in a space of untangling entrails, of autopsying contradictions. Shedding my skin, repairing wounds, peeling blisters, picking scabs, and excreting the self, I scratch at the relationship of the body and the structural tendencies they exist in. These forms challenge the biopolitics of reproducing bodies as subordinated vessels for collective future, suggesting an alternative posthuman relationship between power and reproduction. Drawing from feminist reconfigurations of the body that investigate liberation and contradiction within synthetic biology, these anatomies are birthed from the gut and play in the viscera.
*Future Forward Feature I see the future as the dismantlement of biopolitical frameworks that determine bodies as subordinated vessels of reproduction for collective futures — striping bodies of all preordained conceptions and reframing notions of gender, sex, and reproduction. The ecosystems in my work are mutating within a continuously modifying framework that shifts toward facilitating potential; one that contains structural support of physical vulnerabilities. Reimagining a system that allows for unapologetic excess, my work challenges colonial patriarchal histories assigned to the reproducing body. My work prods at these expanding posthuman potentialities, investigating potential for reproductive liberation. The decisions we make now determine who and what we are becoming, who has the authority to determine how human developments are distributed, and how technological advancements can restructure liberation.
