Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and linguistic constructs that shape identity, history, and collective memory in the United States.
MessageThis sculpture, Am I That Name?, gathers a cluster of black, faceless figures—identical yet slightly angled—standing on a wallpapered tile lifted by a worn industrial jack. Their stances evoke searching or questioning, hands raised to brows as if scanning horizons. The piece destabilizes fixed notions of “women” by questioning identity as socially constructed, intersecting with race, class, sexuality, and geography. Elevated yet precarious, the figures suggest that categories of gender are contingent, shifting, and historically fixed.
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