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STATEMENT OF WORK
My sculptural work aims to explore objectification and repression around the ‘politics of the human body’. A body is vulnerable to pain and hunger - it needs to be protected, touched, and cared for. Instead, our world places the body under incessant pressure from society to conform to an unrealistic template. This has pushed me to create intimate, imperfect sculptural self-portraits. In their fragmented, damaged, and fragile state, the sculptures can appear as if I have violated my own body. Simultaneously, the process of casting my body has given me the perspective to self-observe and accept the mortality of my physical form.
My work serves as a metaphor for the shattering events of the last two years, which reveal the vulnerability of the human body. I began experimenting with methods of casting in 2019. One year later, isolated from others by the pandemic, I started using molds and casting parts of my own body. I used wax and chocolate for my projects because of their organic degradable quality: soft and mutable like human flesh. Recalling how our bodies will disappear one day, so will my sculptures, as the wax will melt or the chocolate will be consumed.