My current research consists
of deconstructing sex and gender. I’m
innately curious about sexual orientation and whether or not this is a given or
something achieved through life experience. Through my own gaze as a woman I’m
conducting artistic experiments through digital representation of my body.
Gender is a
type of “doing, “ as Judith Butler states it. There are many questions I’m
rooting through such as, what does gender want? Does gender exist because of
social norms? Does the outside world determine oneself? What is the materiality
of the body? I strive to Challenge the norms of sexuality and gender
through abjection and psychosis. Can I delegitimize “sex”? The ways in which
I’m approaching this subject is by stripping the body of gender clues and
denying them norms of our society. The images are larger than life with the
largest figure standing at 8 feet tall.
This puts the gaze higher setting the figure in the position of power.
The figures eyes stare back at you with intensity. I’m interested not
specifically in the “male gaze”, or the “female gaze”, but questioning what is
my “self gaze.”
