Ruby Guerin

My practice, informed by feminist lens-based art histories, is an exploration of how the body is depicted in sculptural and performative ways. Using photography as both a mode of documentation and means to experience performance through, I turn the installation of documentation images into a still performance. My work considers how the self may not be singular and integrated, but can be translated through multiple lenses, layered to create one full but not complete or final image. How does this change the viewers’ experience of the work - can the work be seen as an act? I ask, can the work be considered a feminist performance when a feminine body becomes its object? How is feminist practice possible in relation to historically over-objectified feminine bodies? Through this enquiry, I am also interested in how, historically and contemporaneously, women have reclaimed power as subjects and how this has influenced public conversation surrounding feminine bodies across these contexts.