i.s.

works
︎︎︎the whipped dream
series (2021)
︎︎︎the who am i?
series (2021)
︎︎︎biomorphic boobs
& the female gaze
(2022)
︎︎︎LIFE IN COLOUR
FROM THE ARCHIVE (2022)
  ︎︎︎the abject desire
(2022 - present)
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The socially abject categorizes those that traverse
the precipices of society.
that have been rejected,
yet are kept close.
bordering liminal spaces. Where the abject desire is
born.

the abject desire

The abject desire stems from Imogen Tyler’s concept of social abjection (Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance within Neoliberal Britain) which investigates the rejection of marginalised bodies on the basis of difference i.e., race, religion, culture etc. The works are also influenced by The Abject of Desire: the Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller.

The sculptures created explore how desirability can be elicited within the viewer, through familiar forms and materials that reference the body, specifically skin and flesh yet use distorted forms that are removed from the skeletal figure. The sculptural shapes harness this almost uncanny feeling through their imitations of bodies and meat, yet still produce an oddly desirable feeling through simulations of the fleshy familiar that elicits the audience's subconscious fascination with touching the works.

women. (100 x 3cm) [latex on canvas]

women. (100 x 3cm) [latex on canvas]

silicone experiment 23.5 x 6.6 cm [silicone]

soft 133.5 x 61 x 43.4cm [latex, plastic tube, twine]

nap 150 x 58 x 18.5 cm [silicone, tights, styrofoam beads, twine, plastic]

latex experiment 39.2 x 30.6 x 4.5 cm [latex, hair]

protection 37 x 12.2 cm [latex]