The four images use archival photographs depicting the historical objectification and fragmentation of women’s bodies in media and visual culture. I chose these images for how they reduce women to parts rather than whole subjects. The photographs were collaged directly onto papier-mâché casts of my own body, which were then suspended. The casts emphasize disconnection and consumption, mirroring how women are visually circulated. The final image, I chose to reinsert my physical body into the installation. Standing among the hanging casts and projecting a poem onto my body. In the hopes of shifting the work from being solely about representation to being about lived experience.
By incorporating projection, the photographs and limbs move beyond flat documentation, floating in a space. The projected words wrap around my skin and the sculptures, creating more depth and layers than the previous work.
Conceptually, the work explores how histories of objectification do not remain in the past, but rather, they linger, imprint, and shape identity. The casts still represent fragmentation, but my presence disrupts this fragmentation by reclaiming the space, and the poem acts as a voice layered over the body.
