Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My interdisciplinary practice investigates the social and linguistic constructs that shape identity, history, and collective memory in the United States.
MessageA children’s Battleship game becomes a staging ground for the ambiguity of a U.S. strike campaign on alleged narco-trafficking vessels, where more than 75 people were killed without public evidence being offered.
The work mirrors this unease: a board split between order and collapse. The upper half remains legible and gridded, while the lower half breaks into tangled, unverifiable violence. White pegs mark coordinates of certainty, while red wire erupts below as a stand-in for bodies, wreckage, or obscured evidence that resists mapping or resolution.
- Collections: What is this?
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