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Transformative Vessels SLR documentation 2025

Transformative Vessels (2025)

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My Body is a Vessel

In this body of work, I have been primarily exploring the question ‘How does the private interrogation of my body exist in a public space?’. In response I have been experimenting with bodily materials like latex and putting them on hard, contrasting metal frames that create uncomfortable works that explore the self-dehumanisation I feel being trapped in a female body.
 

The piece ‘My body is a vessel’ (above) is based off my own dimensions and shaped into a foetal and protective position contrasting the grotesque and organic latex skins that are stretched and draped viscerally on top of it. I documented the piece on B&W film alongside my body, inspired by Helen Chadwick, to show the interaction between the physical and artistic body.

Process pieces

I first experimented with weaving suede for a skin like cellular effect on metal frames inspired by the Mire Lee Turbine Hall commission at the Tate Modern. This was well received however I was encouraged to go more bodily, resulting in me working with liquid latex.

I pour the latex skins myself and add bits of steel and aluminium before it sets. Through much experimenting of installation on my body and different metal frames I eventually made the above piece ‘My Body is a Vessel’. To be ecologically minded this piece was made of all the latex skins and metal from the previous pieces.

KSA exhibition website 2025