Docile Bodies 2

The body is a powerful site for the formation of both individual and collective identity, continually shaped through observation, discipline, and social expectation. Influenced by anthropological and philosophical perspectives, this work considers the body as a terrain of control, resistance, and cultural inscription, while rejecting the idea of the body as a passive container. Instead, the body is understood as relational, receptive, and deeply connected to the wider universe.

 

Responding to contemporary pressures that promote conformity and idealised bodily norms, this project embraces diverse and individual representations of form. Through a growing series of ceramic sculptures, each with distinct shapes and painted surfaces, the work explores the body as both a symbol of personal identity and a boundary through which experience is understood. Drawing inspiration from creation mythology, gestation, and Paleolithic and Neolithic imagery, the sculptures celebrate human diversity, emotion, and embodied existence.

Ceramic

16x5x1cm