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BODIES OF EVIDENCE

Every body carries a history long before it becomes visible.


This section brings together works that return to the body as a place where memory, intimacy and power intersect. Rather than presenting the body as portrait or anatomy, these series treat it as evidence of lived experience: something constantly shaped by desire, judgement, pleasure and social expectation.


Vulva Fields reject the idea of a singular ideal body, replacing perfection with difference. Always Judging confronts the visual standards imposed on femininity, exposing the everyday mechanisms through which bodies become evaluated, compared and categorised. In Small Disturbances, gestures become a language of their own, revealing vulnerability and connection without needing a face or a narrative.


These works move between drawing, painting and video installation, while remaining rooted in the same question: how does culture teach bodies to become visible? Images are never neutral. They carry histories of beauty, shame, desire and control long before they are recognised as personal experiences.


Bodies of Evidence is a collection of works where the intimate becomes public and the personal becomes collective. The body is treated not as an object to be represented, but as a landscape where identity is continuously negotiated.

INCLUDES: 

SMALL DISTURBANCES (2025)
HERSTORY (2023)
VULVA FIELDS (2020, 2023)
ALWAYS JUDGING (2022)
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<h6 class="font_6">SMALL DISTURBANCES (2025)</h6>
<h6 class="font_6">HERSTORY (2023)</h6>
<h6 class="font_6">VULVA FIELDS (2020, 2023)</h6>
<h6 class="font_6">ALWAYS JUDGING (2022)</h6>

HerStory, installation view, 2023

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