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 stages the contradictions at the core of feminist discourse as Judith Butler describes them. Three male figures strain under the weight of a single female figure, elevating her above their heads as if offering reverence or granting importance. Yet this act of “placing her on a pedestal” reveals its own violence: her category, “woman,” is produced and confined within their grasp, dependent on a patriarchal framework that both exalts and restrains. The work questions whether feminist emancipation can be achieved when the very subject “woman” is constructed and maintained by hierarchical power—whether elevation is simply another form of control disguised as honor.
- Collections: Am I that Name?
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