Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My art practice challenges social and linguistic constructs in the United States through precisely crafted artworks organized into collections.
MessageThis sculpture, Unmarked, confronts how bodies are inscribed with gendered meaning and the violence embedded in that process. Three standing figures have severed their breasts, passing them forward to the first figure whose arms stretch outward, holding what has been cut away. At the end, the male figure clings desperately to these remnants—a futile attempt to preserve the idea of "woman" as a fixed, knowable construct that he has created. The work speaks to freedom, independence, and the relentless struggle to unmake imposed identities.
- Collections: Am I that Name?
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